Shift Confusion

[Richard Brodie]

"John Machin" <sjmachin at lexicon.net> wrote in message
news:u81r111a8v82rt2uqfqd5me0obbua40k2p at 4ax.com...

> >Essentially, it should be possible to use a 'packed string' format in
> >Python, where as long as the characters you're sending are in the ASCII
> >range 0 to 127, two will fit in a byte.
>
> It should be possible, but only in a realm where phlogiston and
> perpetual motion machines exist.

alt.sys.pdp10 ?