bitwsie operator help please

[Grant Edwards]

In article <MPG.160f1025af35e968989741 at nntp.mindspring.com>, David In VA wrote:
> I am not sure how to properly write the bitwise operator but I think it 
> will be useful for some thing I need to do.  If I want to print "Hello" 
> if the value 2^2 (4) is in a given value (lets say testvalue) how would 
> I do this?  I have been trying this
> 
> if  4 & testvalue:
> 	print "hello"

It works for me.  How exactly is it not working?

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