Manipulating bitsets in struct

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_666 at gmx.net
Thu Jul 10 00:55:45 EDT 2008


On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:04:24 -0400, Allen wrote:

> I'm using Python to do some simple network programming, and found the 
> struct module very useful for such things, but is there a way to easily 
> manipulate bitsets such as a 16 bit word being split into 4 parts like 2 
> bits, 1 bit, 4 bits, and 9 bits?
> 
> Perhaps something like:
> 
> struct.pack('!h(2:1:4:9)',2,0,1,100)

Take a look at Construct_ instead of `struct`.

.. _Construct: http://construct.wikispaces.com/

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch



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