Hi there,
I'm so new to python (coming from .net so excuse me for the stupid question)
and i'm tring to do a very simple thing,with bytes.
My problem is this:
i've a byte that naturally is composed from 2 nibbles hi&low, and two
chars.. like A nd B. What i wonna do is to write A to the High nibble and B
to the the lower nibble.
Or an other example can be i've 2 numbers.. like 7 and 8 and whant to do the
same as for chars.
I'm really confused on how t do it, maybe cause python is type-less (dynamic
typed)
Any Help?
Cheers,
Gianmaria
ITALY
16  6359 
I'm really confused on how t do it, maybe cause python is
type-less (dynamic typed)
Being duck-typed doesn't really have anything to do with it.
Python supports logical shifting and combining
i've a byte that naturally is composed from 2 nibbles hi&low,
and two chars.. like A nd B. What i wonna do is to write A to
the High nibble and B to the the lower nibble. Or an other
example can be i've 2 numbers.. like 7 and 8 and whant to do
the same as for chars.
>>a = int('1001', 2)
b = int('0110', 2)
a
9
>>b
6
>>0xff & (((0xff & a) << 4) | (0xff & b))
150
or, if you're sloppy,
>>(a << 4) | b
150
And for verification:
>>int('10010110 ', 2)
150
Thus, that can be wrapped up as a function
>>nibbles2byt e = lambda a,b: \
0xff & (((0xff & a) << 4) | (0xff & b))
>>nibbles2byte( a,b)
150
-tkc
On Nov 28, 2007 2:07 PM, Gianmaria Iaculo - NVENTA
<gi*******@hotm ail.comwrote:
Hi there,
I'm so new to python (coming from .net so excuse me for the stupid question)
and i'm tring to do a very simple thing,with bytes.
My problem is this:
i've a byte that naturally is composed from 2 nibbles hi&low, and two
chars.. like A nd B. What i wonna do is to write A to the High nibble and B
to the the lower nibble.
A string in python is a sequence of bytes, so what you're describing
here is the string "AB".
Or an other example can be i've 2 numbers.. like 7 and 8 and whant to do the
same as for chars.
"\x07\x08"
I'm really confused on how t do it, maybe cause python is type-less (dynamic
typed)
You can use the struct module to convert back and forth between byte
sequences and numerical values. For example, to get an integer with
the value of the nibble you mentioned before:
struct.unpack(" h", "AB") -(16961,)
Exactly what you'll want to use and what format you want will depend
on why you're doing this.
On Nov 28, 2007 2:27 PM, Chris Mellon <ar*****@gmail. comwrote:
On Nov 28, 2007 2:07 PM, Gianmaria Iaculo - NVENTA
<gi*******@hotm ail.comwrote:
Hi there,
I'm so new to python (coming from .net so excuse me for the stupid question)
and i'm tring to do a very simple thing,with bytes.
My problem is this:
i've a byte that naturally is composed from 2 nibbles hi&low, and two
chars.. like A nd B. What i wonna do is to write A to the High nibble and B
to the the lower nibble.
A string in python is a sequence of bytes, so what you're describing
here is the string "AB".
Ah, I didn't realize until after I'd sent this that you were trying to
merge them into the same byte. This doesn't make a whole lot of sense
- ord("A") is outside the range you can represent in half a byte - but
Python does support the full range of bitwise operations, so you can
do whatever kind of shifting and setting that you'd have done in .NET.
On Nov 29, 7:07 am, "Gianmaria Iaculo - NVENTA"
<gianma...@hotm ail.comwrote:
Hi there,
I'm so new to python (coming from .net so excuse me for the stupid question)
and i'm tring to do a very simple thing,with bytes.
My problem is this:
i've a byte that naturally is composed from 2 nibbles hi&low, and two
chars.. like A nd B. What i wonna do is to write A to the High nibble and B
to the the lower nibble.
But a nibble is 4 bits and a char in general is 8 bits. Please explain
"write A to the high nibble". Let's assume that you mean that 0 <= A
<= 15 ....
The building blocks that you need are the ord() and chr() builtin
functions, and the << (shift-left) operator. The hex() function is
useful for seeing what is happening.
>>a = '\x07'
b = '\x08'
c = 7
d = 8
ord(a)
7
>>chr(c)
'\x07'
>>hex(c)
'0x7'
>>hex(c << 4)
'0x70'
>>hex((ord(a) << 4) + ord(b))
'0x78'
>>hex((c << 4) + d)
'0x78'
>>>
Cheers,
John
On 2007-11-28, Chris Mellon <ar*****@gmail. comwrote:
On Nov 28, 2007 2:07 PM, Gianmaria Iaculo - NVENTA
<gi*******@hot mail.comwrote:
>Hi there,
I'm so new to python (coming from .net so excuse me for the stupid question)
and i'm tring to do a very simple thing,with bytes.
My problem is this:
i've a byte that naturally is composed from 2 nibbles hi&low, and two
chars.. like A nd B. What i wonna do is to write A to the High nibble and B
to the the lower nibble.
A string in python is a sequence of bytes, so what you're describing
here is the string "AB".
No, he's describing something that consists of 2 nibbles (1
byte). The string "AB" is two bytes.
>Or an other example can be i've 2 numbers.. like 7 and 8 and whant to do the
same as for chars.
"\x07\x08"
Again, he wants a single byte and that's two bytes.
>I'm really confused on how t do it, maybe cause python is
type-less (dynamic typed)
You can use the struct module to convert back and forth between byte
sequences and numerical values. For example, to get an integer with
the value of the nibble you mentioned before:
struct.unpack(" h", "AB") -(16961,)
No, he wants to do this:
(0x0A<<4) | 0x0B
(7<<4) | 8
Exactly what you'll want to use and what format you want will depend
on why you're doing this.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! My vaseline is
at RUNNING...
visi.com
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:07:56PM +0100, Gianmaria Iaculo - NVENTA wrote regarding Bit Operations:
>
Hi there,
I'm so new to python (coming from .net so excuse me for the stupid question)
and i'm tring to do a very simple thing,with bytes.
My problem is this:
i've a byte that naturally is composed from 2 nibbles hi&low, and two
chars.. like A nd B. What i wonna do is to write A to the High nibble and B
to the the lower nibble.
Or an other example can be i've 2 numbers.. like 7 and 8 and whant to do the
same as for chars.
I'm really confused on how t do it, maybe cause python is type-less (dynamic
typed)
Do you possibly mean that your letters are hexadecimal digits? If so, you can follow the advice given to you by others for numbers, treating your letters as numbers:
A=10
B=11
....
F=15
py>>hex(15)
'0xf'
>>int('f', 16)
15
>>int('0xf', 16)
15
Cheers,
Cliff
>>0xff & (((0xff & a) << 4) | (0xff & b))
150
or, if you're sloppy,
>>(a << 4) | b
150
Slightly OT, maybe - why exactly is the second alternative 'sloppy?'
I believe you, because I had a problem once (in Java) with bytes not
having the value I expected unless I did the and-magic, but I wasn't
clear on why. Is it an issue with the word otherwise possibly not
being zeroed out?
-dan
Txs all,
i wont to respond to who asked why i needed it:
I'm using python on GSM modules and the informations i have to move goes
along GPRS/UMTS connections so it's beatiful for me to transfer more
informations with less space...
imagine i have to send this simple data....
41.232323,12.34 5678
i can send it as it's or use the nibble trick and on the receiving station
'unlift" the data and rebuild the original information...
isn'it???
cheers + TXS,
Gianmaria
ps: now i'm gonna read all your answers in details... txs again
Firma Gianmaria Iaculo
"Gianmaria Iaculo - NVENTA" <gi*******@hotm ail.comha scritto nel messaggio
news:fi******** **@aioe.org...
Hi there,
I'm so new to python (coming from .net so excuse me for the stupid
question) and i'm tring to do a very simple thing,with bytes.
My problem is this:
i've a byte that naturally is composed from 2 nibbles hi&low, and two
chars.. like A nd B. What i wonna do is to write A to the High nibble and
B to the the lower nibble.
Or an other example can be i've 2 numbers.. like 7 and 8 and whant to do
the same as for chars.
I'm really confused on how t do it, maybe cause python is type-less
(dynamic typed)
Any Help?
Cheers,
Gianmaria
ITALY
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:05:40PM +0100, Gianmaria Iaculo - NVENTA wrote regarding Re: Bit Operations:
>
Txs all,
i wont to respond to who asked why i needed it:
I'm using python on GSM modules and the informations i have to move goes
along GPRS/UMTS connections so it's beatiful for me to transfer more
informations with less space...
imagine i have to send this simple data....
41.232323,12.34 5678
i can send it as it's or use the nibble trick and on the receiving station
'unlift" the data and rebuild the original information...
isn'it???
Um, no. It isn't. How exactly are you going to pack floating point numbers into a half a byte?
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