Manipulating bitsets in struct

[Larry Bates]

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)
> 
> 
> Brian Vanderburg II
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Just 'or' them together after shifting to the left the appropriate number of bits.

-Larry