bitwsie operator help please

[Samuel Schulenburg]

grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards) wrote in message news:<slrn9qf448.t5c.grante at grante.comtrol.com>...
> 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?

Works for me also. I let testvalue = 8, and if failed, I then let
testvalue = 12, and it printed "hello"

Sam Schulenburg