Efficient Bit addressing in Python.

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

Lie <Li...mail.com> wrote:

>> This of course means that there has to be another
>> thread active to actually do the i/o on a periodic basis,
>> gathering the outputs and writing them out, and reading
>> the inputs and scattering them to the various named input
>> bits
>
>Not necessarily. You've mentioned two ways.

True.

>> I would even not mind if I have to write:
>>
>> if e_stop():
>>     put_everything_off()
>>
>> or:
>>
>> set(push,1)
>>
>
>PS: Umm, a little bit off note: set is a built-in name, I'm a little
>confused whether you meant on creating a "set" or setting the push bit
>to 1, if the latter case it might be better to use set and clear
>instead of passing a second parameter (and also to choose another
>name).
>
True. this was a brain fart - should have been setbit or something.

>.Alternatively, there is one more way:
>if bb.e_stop:
>    bb.e_stop = 0
>where bb is some kind of "property bag" and .e_stop is a "property"
>instead of an "instance member".
>
what is the advantage?

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>Rather than directly using getters and setters, I'd go with property.
>It (usually) makes a cleaner external interface of the class. And for
>the mess of having to write lots of boilerplate codes, you _could_
>dynamically generate the boilerplate code from a dictionary (of name
>to bit position) and currying (or something to that effect).
>Alternatively, you could also do some magic with getattr and setattr.

I am not too sure I know how...

- Hendrik