unsigned ints and operator.rshift

[Michael Hudson]

Joe Connellan <joec at mill.co.uk> writes:

> I'm storing info in an int (32bits) that I'm wanting to shift left and
> right using operator.[l|r]shift the problem is that because the int is
> signed rshift fills in 1's rather than 0's on negative numbers - is
> there any way to store the 32bits as an unsigned int do get around this?

Use longs and keep masking?  There's no guarantee that Python int's
are 32 bits -- they're 64 bits on alphas f'ex.

Cheers,
M.

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