Jeremy Bowers wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:17:07 +0200, andrea wrote: > > > >>I was thinking to code the huffman algorithm and trying to compress >>something with it, but I've got a problem. >>How can I represent for example a char with only 3 bits?? >>I had a look to the compression modules but I can't understand them much... >> >>Thank you very much >>Any good link would be appreciated of course :) >> >> > >I think the answer to this question very much depends on why you want to >do this. Easy and fast are pretty opposed in this particular domain in >Python (IMHO anyways, it's an easy bit-bashing language but it's slow >for that), and you're in one of the rare domains where it matters. > >The answers strongly vary if you're trying to create something performant, >or just for your learning purposes. Or homework purposes... ;-) > > > No it's not for homework but for learning purposes... I understand I can't do it easily in python, but maybe I could define a new type in C and use it to do those dirty works, what do you think? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list