On Apr 30, 9:53 pm, "Nathan Harmston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I ve being thinking about playing around with bit strings but use in > some encoding problems I m considering and was trying to decide how to > implement a bit string class. Is there a library out there for doing > basic things with bit strings already is my first question? > > I know that I can extend string to bit string, but is there anyway I > can force the alphabet to be restricted to 1's and 0's (or even 1, 0 > and -1, as an extension to from trinary strings). > > class Binary_String(String): > pass >
See if you can pick which line below is impractically different to the others: binary: 0, 1 "trinary": -1, 0, 1 octal: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 decimal: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
