Diarmuid Bourke wrote:
> Hey all,
> I'm new to python, but I'm finding it really cool and nice.
> My questions is how would I limit a integer to 16bits, as I'm making a
> LZW implementation for college and I want to constrain the codewords to
> 16bits instead of pythons default 32.
> 
> Basically I want to end up with the encoded file containing only 2byte
> integer codewords.
> I havent seen any way of doing this in the docs yet, perhaps someone
> here will know.

could you operate in 32 bits internally and convert
to/from 16 bit using the struct module or something?

Pádraig.

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