If your actual interest in defining a bit type is to work with an array of bits, try Ilan Schnell's bitarray module (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bitarray/0.3.4). It uses a compiled extension, so it is quite fast and space-efficient.
Ilan gave a presentation on this at the Texas Unconference last fall, and some of the applications were pretty interesting/novel. If you download the tarball from PyPI, there is an included examples directory. -- Paul _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
