"shawn bright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > but how do i read the individual bits of a byte > how do i know what the msb of a is ?
See my reply to Johan in the thread Struct the solution... Basically you can use a bitwise and with a mask containing only the bit you are interested in. Johan wanted the 8th bit so the mask was 10000000 = 0x80 Thus bit8 = 0x80 if data & bit8: print 'bit 8 is 1' else: print 'bit 8 is 0' See my Using the OS topic sidebar for more info on bitmasks. HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
