On Mar 10, 3:26 pm, DanielJohnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to solve a genetic algorithm problem where I want to read > a bitvector of very large size (say 10000) and manipulate bits based > on certain algorithms. > > I am a newbie in Python. What data structure are good to read such > huge data set. Are there any built in classes for bit fiddling. >
Bitwise operations like & | ^ << >> etc work on long integers. This happens at C speed. An alternative (in pure Python) is found via: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/BitVector HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
