Write bits in file

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On May 20, 12:14 am, Tim Roberts <t... at probo.com> wrote:
> Monica Leko <monica.l... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I have a specific format and I need binary representation.  Does
> >Python have some built-in function which will, for instance, represent
> >number 15 in exactly 10 bits?
>
> For the record, I'd like to point out that even C cannot do this.  You need
> to use shifting and masking to produce a stream of 8-bit bytes, or to
> extract your values from a stream of 8-bit bytes.

Technically specifying 8-bits isn't quite accurate, as C allows for 9-
bit bytes and other variations depending on the architecture.  But
that may be overly pedantic unless you have a PDP-10 laying around
that you're writing C code on or something like that.