2 Feb
2006
2 Feb
'06
12:26 p.m.
On Feb 2, 2006, at 7:11 PM, Bengt Richter wrote:
[1] To reduce all this eye-glazing discussion to a simple example, how do people now use hex notation to define an integer bit-mask constant with bits 31 and 2 set?
That's easy: 0x80000004
That was broken in python < 2.4, though, so there you need to do: MASK = 2**32 - 1 0x80000004 & MASK
(assume 32-bit int for target platform, counting bit 0 as LSB and bit 31 as sign).
The 31st bit _isn't_ the sign bit in python and the bit-ness of the target platform doesn't matter. Python's integers are arbitrarily long. I'm not sure why you're trying to pretend as if python was C.
James