Sounds like you want the bitwise and operator, & >>> 2 & 3 2 >>> 32 & 16 0 >>> 31 & 12 12
etc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] inquired: > i have an interesting project at work going on. here is the challenge. > i am using the serial module to read data from a serial input. > it comes in as a hex. i need to make it a binary and compare it bit by > bit to another byte. They have some weird way they set this up that i > have to compare these things with AND. in other words, if bit 1 is 1 > AND bit 1 is 1 then the real value is 1... > > long story short. is there a good way to compare bytes, bit by bit with > one of the modules of python. i want to know so i dont get halfway into > developing this and find that there is a much better way to do this > than by hand. > > thanks for any suggestions. > sk <>< -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
