[issue19915] int.bit_at(n) - Accessing a single bit in O(1)

Mark Dickinson report at bugs.python.org
Sat Dec 7 14:08:00 CET 2013


Mark Dickinson added the comment:

> I'd rather see `i.bits_at(pos, width=1)`

Me too.  Extracting sign, exponent and significand fields from the binary representation of a float is at least one thing I'd use this for.

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