why the inconsistency?
Alex Martelli
aleax at aleax.it
Sat Sep 27 18:49:33 EDT 2003
Anton Vredegoor wrote:
...
> Some fast way of computing a tuple (bitmask,nbits) from a long integer
> in Python can be interesting anyway, if only to facilitate bit
> twiddling experiments. Below's a -probably buggy- part of a
Sure, but I think gmpy already offers good and fast functions for all of
these needs. E.g., gmpy.numdigits(x, 2) for the number of bits, and
also getbit, setbit, lowbits, ...
Alex
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