Bit Operations

[John Machin]

On Nov 29, 8:35 am, "Gianmaria Iaculo - NVENTA"
<gianma... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> U are really nice guys... i'm really apreciating (sorry 4 my bad english)
>
> Chriss is right this are coordinates.... and i'm treating as strings
> naturally
> I dont really have floating points on my module.. it run a 1.5 python
> version from Telit.
> So i dont have zLib too... just have 1.5 Mb of Ram and 3Mb of Rom... not
> realy confortable..isn't it?
>
> I'm tring some experiments on the command line... i've tried this:
>
> My longitude is 42.237897
>
> so as a first step... i created a X and done this job as your examples:
>
> a = 4
> b = 2
>
> x = (a<<4)|b
> x is 66
>
> so i can do:
>
> aDecoded = x >> 4
>
> and i have the 4 again...( a value) but i've some problems while i decode
> the b....
>
> Where i go wrong?

>>> 66 & 0xf
2
>>>