Thanks. So far these solutions will return strings. So I can't really treat it like a variable, yet still perform bitslice on it, since I need a special class to do bitslice and bit selection, but as soon as I try to pass it into some other function to check a bit, I gotta then do another operation to convert back to a variable.
So I can get it to a point where I can do shadow_register[3] and get the value of any bit, or I can do shadow_register[4:2] and get a bitslice, and I can write them just as easily at this point. If I add the __new__ method into the class, the instance obj becomes int, but is no longer slicable. I think it looks like I can't have it both ways. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
