[Tutor] Defining "bit" type

Vicent vginer at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 17:51:59 CET 2009


On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 17:31, Paul McGuire <ptmcg at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> If your actual interest in defining a bit type is to work with an array of
> bits, try Ilan Schnell's bitarray module
> (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bitarray/0.3.4).  It uses a compiled
> extension,
> so it is quite fast and space-efficient.
>
> Ilan gave a presentation on this at the Texas Unconference last fall, and
> some of the applications were pretty interesting/novel.  If you download
> the
> tarball from PyPI, there is an included examples directory.
>

Well, not necessarily —but I'll give it a look.

Thanks.



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Vicent
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