[Tutor] Dealing with bitfields in Python

[Alan Gauld]

"Skipper Seabold" <jsseabold at gmail.com> wrote

> You can just do a binary AND with your consts and your bitfield value to 
> get
> > each bit. The values will be the actual value (2, 4, 8, etc.) but if 
> > you
> > use these as a boolean it won't matter.
> No that's perfect.  It looks like I need to read up a bit more (pun
> not intended) on the binary AND, but I think I see what it does and I
> understand your example.

You can go to the Using the OS topic in my tutorial for a quick tutoerial
on how to extracts bits from a bitfield. There is a "sidebar" box entitled
"Bitwise Operations and Flags" which explains the idea

HTH,


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