[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My question to the group: Does anyone know of a non-hackish way to
> determine the required bit position in python? I know that my two
> ideas
> can be combined to get something working. But is there a *better* way,
> that isn't that hackish?
>
How about using the hex representation of the value?
OFFSET = dict(("%x"%i, int(c)) for i,c in enumerate("5433222211111111"))
def get_highest_bit_num(r):
s = "%x"%r
return len(s) * 4 - OFFSET[s[0]]
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