"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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.
As long as we are being pedantic, and I don't mind that, I would point out that I didn't actually say that C worked in 8-bit bytes. I was very careful to say merely that, assuming you wanted a stream of 8-bit bytes, you need to use shifting and masking to produce it. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
