On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:05:40PM +0100, Gianmaria Iaculo - NVENTA wrote regarding Re: Bit Operations: > > Txs all, > i wont to respond to who asked why i needed it: > > I'm using python on GSM modules and the informations i have to move goes > along GPRS/UMTS connections so it's beatiful for me to transfer more > informations with less space... > imagine i have to send this simple data.... > > 41.232323,12.345678 > > i can send it as it's or use the nibble trick and on the receiving station > 'unlift" the data and rebuild the original information... > > isn'it??? >
Um, no. It isn't. How exactly are you going to pack floating point numbers into a half a byte? Or are you sending it as strings? Also a waste of space, and unnecessarily complex. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list