On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Alan Gauld<[email protected]> wrote: > > "Skipper Seabold" <[email protected]> wrote > >> You can just do a binary AND with your consts and your bitfield value to >> get >> > each bit. The values will be the actual value (2, 4, 8, etc.) but if > >> > you >> > use these as a boolean it won't matter. >> No that's perfect. It looks like I need to read up a bit more (pun >> not intended) on the binary AND, but I think I see what it does and I >> understand your example. > > You can go to the Using the OS topic in my tutorial for a quick tutoerial > on how to extracts bits from a bitfield. There is a "sidebar" box entitled > "Bitwise Operations and Flags" which explains the idea >
Thanks. Your description is (of course) as clear as day. Cheers, Skipper _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
