[Tutor] binary data as string?

["Jörg Wölke"]

> > > for n in range(8):
> > >    print (data & mask) and 1 or 0,
> > >    mask = mask << 1

> > s/<</>>/
> >  
> > > Will print out the bit pattern of 42...
> 
> Actually no, that'll drop the 1 off the end and 
> only print the first bit accurately.
silly me - I didn`t see that you where shifting mask not data!

> the bits in reverse order!
Why not shift data and reverse the result?
That seemed to be the more general approach to me.
> 
> mask = 128    # = 1000000

If it is guarateed, that the Data unit is 8 bits.



> Should do it properly...
> 
> :-)
> 
> Alan G.

Greetings, J"o!

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