"Kent Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > This is also a good application of bitwise operations. > > a & 128 will be 128 if the high bit in a is set, 0 if it is not.
Only for an 8 bit integer! Most integers nowadays are 32 bit so you need to use 0x80000000 to get the msb! Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
