Simple Recursive Generator Question
Bengt Richter
bokr at oz.net
Fri Dec 19 17:02:19 EST 2003
On 19 Dec 2003 11:13:39 -0800, jcb at iteris.com (MetalOne) wrote:
>I am trying to write a generator function that yields the index position
>of each set bit in a mask.
>e.g.
>for x in bitIndexGenerator(0x16): #10110
> print x
>--> 1 2 4
>
>
>This is what I have, but it does not work.
>Changing yield to print, shows that the recursion works correctly.
>
>def bitIndexGenerator(mask, index=0):
> if mask == 0: return
> elif mask & 0x1: yield index
> bitIndexGenerator(mask >> 1, index+1)
>
>What am I missing?
Here is one that works also for negative numbers (includes the least significant
of the arbitrarily extended sign bits):
>>> def bitnos(self):
... """Little-endian bit number generator"""
... bits = long(self)
... sign = bits<0
... bitno = 0
... while bits>0 or sign and bits!=-1L:
... if bits&1: yield bitno
... bitno += 1
... bits >>= 1
... if sign: yield bitno
...
(I'll use a subclass of long I recently posted (with missing ~ operator in first version, but
fix followup posted) to show bits) The above is a mod of the bit list generator from the latter.
>>> from lbits import LBits
>>>
>>> for i in range(-3,4)+[0x16, -0x16]:
... print '%3s %8r %s' %(i, LBits(i), [bit for bit in bitnos(i)])
...
-3 101b [0, 2]
-2 110b [1]
-1 11b [0]
0 0b []
1 01b [0]
2 010b [1]
3 011b [0, 1]
22 010110b [1, 2, 4]
-22 101010b [1, 3, 5]
Regards,
Bengt Richter
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