How to locate the bit in bits string?

[Tim Chase]

Li Wang wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> If I use an integer to represent bits:
> e.g. 99 represents '1100011'
> 
> How can I locate, say the second bit of 99(i.e. '1')?
> 
> Although bin(99)[4] could be used to locate it, this transform cost
> too much memory (99 only needs 2Bytes, while string '1100011' needs
> 7Bytes).
> 
> Anyone knows how to locate  the second bit without using bin() function?

You mean

   def get_bit(number, bit):
     return (number >> bit) & 1

?

-tkc