PYTHON equivalents of BITAND and BITSHIFT of MATLAB

[blmadhavan at gmail.com]

Hello Brian,

Thanks for your suggestion. Which is correct for MATLAB command: typeBits = FCF << -9?

typeBits = FCF >> 9 

or 

typeBits = FCF >> -9

I mean to ask if it should be -9 or +9?

Thanks in advance
Madhavan

On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 11:22:10 PM UTC+5:30, Brian Oney wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-05-01 at 10:35 -0700, blmadhavan at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have the following line from a MATLAB program with FCF (format: UInt_16) as input:
> > 
> > ftype = bitand(FCF, 7)
> > typeBits = bitshift(FCF, -9)
> > subtype = bitand(typeBits, 7)
> > 
> > I wrote the following in Python for the above commands:
> > 
> > ftype = FCF & 7
> > typeBits = FCF << -9             ------> Is this correct or FCF >> -9?
> > subtype = typeBits & 7
> >  
> > Can someone help me write the equivalent command in PYTHON?
> > 
> > Look forward to your suggestions.
> 
> >From the Matlab doc:
> '
> intout = bitshift(A,k)
> intout = bitshift(A,k,assumedtype)
> Description
> 
> example
> 
> intout = bitshift(A,k) returns A shifted to the left by k bits,
> equivalent to multiplying by 2k. Negative values of k correspond to
> shifting bits right or dividing by 2|k| and rounding to the nearest
> integer towards negative infinity. Any overflow bits are truncated. '
> 
> So the equivalent would be:
> 
> >>> typeBits = FCF >> 9
> 
> Cheers
> Brian