On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Monty Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/25/2010 02:47 PM, Eric Day wrote: >> >> Of course with binary you waste at least one extra byte since it needs >> to pack the size too, so doing signed int and managing the last bit >> would be most efficient. > > Of course, in all fairness - asking people to do the bit swap magic for this > from languages which are not C is like telling people to use a Ruby on Rails > ActiveResource API from a non-ruby language. (can you tell my frustration of > the day?) > > I have no idea how I'd do this sanely in Python, for instance. >
jpi...@serialcoder:~$ python Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec 7 2009, 18:43:55) [GCC 4.4.1] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> the_signed_int = -1 >>> print the_signed_int -1 >>> the_unsigned_int= the_signed_int & 0xFFFFFFFF >>> print the_unsigned_int 4294967295 -jay _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
