> I'm really confused on how t do it, maybe cause python is
> type-less (dynamic typed)
Being duck-typed doesn't really have anything to do with it.
Python supports logical shifting and combining
> i've a byte that naturally is composed from 2 nibbles hi&low,
> and two chars.. like A nd B. What i wonna do is to write A to
> the High nibble and B to the the lower nibble. Or an other
> example can be i've 2 numbers.. like 7 and 8 and whant to do
> the same as for chars.
>>> a = int('1001', 2)
>>> b = int('0110', 2)
>>> a
9
>>> b
6
>>> 0xff & (((0xff & a) << 4) | (0xff & b))
150
or, if you're sloppy,
>>> (a << 4) | b
150
And for verification:
>>> int('10010110', 2)
150
Thus, that can be wrapped up as a function
>>> nibbles2byte = lambda a,b: \
0xff & (((0xff & a) << 4) | (0xff & b))
>>> nibbles2byte(a,b)
150
-tkc
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