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Re: Bitwise Operations

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On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Devyn Collier Johnson
<devyncjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now here is something that confuses me, the binary numbers are numbers not
> strings, so why are they put in quotes as if they are strings?

They aren't numbers at that point, they're strings of digits. A number
is represented in various forms:

>>> 1234, 0x4d2, 0o2322, 0b10011010010
(1234, 1234, 1234, 1234)

The two-argument form of int() takes a string of digits and a base:

>>> int("ya",36)
1234

In base 36, y and a are digits. But in Python's base syntax, you can't
use them that way, so there's no way to render the number other than
as a string.

For what you're doing, I think the 0b notation is the best. It's an
int literal written in binary.

ChrisA

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Bitwise Operations Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-07-29 17:25 -0400
  Re: Bitwise Operations Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-29 21:53 +0000
    Re: Bitwise Operations Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-07-29 19:34 -0400
      Re: Bitwise Operations Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2013-07-30 08:20 +0200
    Re: Bitwise Operations Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-07-29 16:41 -0700
    Re: Bitwise Operations Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-30 00:44 +0100
    Re: Bitwise Operations Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-07-29 19:48 -0400
    Re: Bitwise Operations Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-30 01:07 +0100
    Re: Bitwise Operations MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-07-30 02:55 +0100
    Re: Bitwise Operations Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-07-30 01:46 -0400

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