On Jul 12, 5:34 pm, Godzilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to find a way to convert an integer (8-bits long for > starters) and converting them to a list, e.g.: > > num = 255 > numList = [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1] > > with the first element of the list being the least significant, so > that i can keep appending to that list without having to worry about > the size of the integer. I need to do this because some of the > function call can return a 2 lots of 32-bit numbers. I have to find a > way to transport this in a list... or is there a better way?
Standing on the shoulders of previous posters, I put this together. -- Paul # init list of tuples by byte bytebits = lambda num : [num >> i & 1 for i in range(8)] bytes = [ tuple(bytebits(i)) for i in range(256) ] # use bytes lookup to get bits in a 32-bit integer bits = lambda num : sum((bytes[num >> i & 255] for i in range(0,32,8)), ()) # use base-2 log to find how many bits in an integer of arbitrary length from math import log,ceil log_of_2 = log(2) numBits = lambda num : int(ceil(log(num)/log_of_2)) # expand bits to integers of arbitrary length arbBits = lambda num : sum((bytes[num >> i & 255] for i in range(0,numBits(num),8)),()) print arbBits((1<<34)-1) print arbBits(37) # prints #(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) #(1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list