[Tutor] Fwd: how to see a number as two bytes

[Luke Paireepinart]

No, I'm not sure what you mean.
Given this number

100101010101101011

the operation will slice off bits on the left with the % 2**16 so that
we only have 16 bits,
0101010101101011
then it will shift this value to the right so that we only have the
highest 8 bits
01010101
that will be stored in high.
Then it will slice off the bits on the left with the 2**8 so that we
only have 8 bits left,
01101011
and that is your low value.

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:04 AM, shawn bright <nephish at gmail.com> wrote:
> so using this, if num ==6, then i should get 2 and 88 ?
> thanks, just checking to make sure i get what you wrote.
> shawn
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Luke Paireepinart
> <rabidpoobear at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear at gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:00 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Tutor] how to see a number as two bytes
>> To: shawn bright <nephish at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> high, low = ((num % 2**16) >> 8, num % 2**8)  or something thereabouts.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:47 AM, shawn bright <nephish at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> hey there all,
>>> i have a script that needs to send a number as two bytes.
>>> how would i be able to see a number expressed as a hi byte and a lo byte?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> shawn
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