bit manipulation frustration

[Peter Schneider-Kamp]

Peter Schneider-Kamp wrote:
> 
> Courageous wrote:
> >
> > Say for example I want to increase or decrease R,

A less general, but faster way (untested):

def incR(v,inc = 1):
  return v[0]+chr(ord(v[1]) + (inc << 3))

Note that little-endian/big-endian byte ordering must
be considered.

Peter
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