Bitmask representation of integers

Miki Tebeka tebeka at cs.bgu.ac.il
Wed Oct 8 08:50:57 EDT 2003


Hello Tonguç,

> I'm looking for a way to represent bit-level data in python. Something
> like 0xDEADBEEF representation, but not for hex i'm looking for binary.
> Something like the %00110101 representation I used in pascal... Of
> course I can make my operations with ordinary integers but binary
> representation makes the code easier to read.
Just use strings.
>>> int("101", 2)
5
>>>

HTH.
Miki




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