On 09/10/18 14:21, Chip Wachob wrote: > The API is providing me with a bytearray-formatted result, but the API > only reads one whole byte, or eight bits, at a time.
Being slightly picky but an octet and a byte are subtly different. An octet is a group of 8 bits with no meaning attached. So an octet contains 8 bits which could be individual single bit flags, or they could be two groups of 4(nibbles) or a single group of 8(a byte). A byte is a more specific thing that only exists as a set of 8 bits joined together as a single unit of data. Most of the time it makes no significant difference so people often use the terms interchangeably but in this kind of scenario the difference is significant. You are reading octets and want to convert them into a bytearray - removing the extraneous bits in the process. The way I'd do that is convert to an int and then do a single shift right on the result. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
