trouble converting c++ bitshift to python equivalent

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-05-24, nanodust at gmail.com <nanodust at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You should really use the struct module for that type of conversion, but
>> you also need to know that indexing of lists and tuples starts at 0, not 1.
>
> indeed, i used to have temp = unpack('h', tBuf[1,3])

Which probably should have been

temp = unpack('h', tBuf[1:3])[0]

But that still doesn't do the same thing as your example which
only used 7 bits from each byte.

> but it was a hack (and as such a bit off ;) as i was having
> troubles casting

Python doesn't have "casting".

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