Binary number manipulation

[SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk]

> From:	Matthew A. Berglund [SMTP:matt at satbp.com]
> I am very new to python so I am working on some ass-umptions which may be
> incorrect (please forgive me).
> 
> I am working on a problem that requires me to take 2 decimal integers,
> each of which represents half of a word. I need to slap these things
> together and get out another decimal integer.
> A couple of questions:
> 1. Is there a way to typecast a variable as a binary?
 
AFAIK, no.
 
> 2. If 1 is no, does that mean that I need to do all the manipulation in
> some icky string format and then go back?
 
I use:

((high << 16) | low)
 
> I do see the bit-wise operations available and this looks like I need to
> simply perform these on my integers? Can it really be that simple?
 
Yup.

Cheers,
Simon Brunning,
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/
--LongSig




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