On May 20, 12:14 am, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Monica Leko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I have a specific format and I need binary representation. Does > >Python have some built-in function which will, for instance, represent > >number 15 in exactly 10 bits? > > For the record, I'd like to point out that even C cannot do this. You need > to use shifting and masking to produce a stream of 8-bit bytes, or to > extract your values from a stream of 8-bit bytes.
Technically specifying 8-bits isn't quite accurate, as C allows for 9- bit bytes and other variations depending on the architecture. But that may be overly pedantic unless you have a PDP-10 laying around that you're writing C code on or something like that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
