[Tutor] Bits

2006-04-04 Thread Øyvind
Hello. Is it possible to read the bits (the 0's and 1's) of a string or a file with Python? What module would I use? Thanks in advance, Øyvind -- This email has been scanned for viruses spam by Decna as - www.decna.no Denne e-posten er sjekket for virus spam av Decna as - www.decna.no

Re: [Tutor] Bits

2006-04-04 Thread Kent Johnson
Øyvind wrote: Hello. Is it possible to read the bits (the 0's and 1's) of a string or a file with Python? What module would I use? I don't know exactly what you mean by read the bits but you can use data = open('afile', 'b').read() to get the data into a string byte1=ord(data[1]) to get a

Re: [Tutor] Bits

2006-04-04 Thread Alan Gauld
Øyvind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message Is it possible to read the bits (the 0's and 1's) of a string or a file with Python? What module would I use? Yes, you can read the bits by reading bytes and applying bitmasks and bitwise operations. You can get the bytes using the struct module