<snip binary function> > But probably (surely) my interpretation is wrong. Hehe > Ah, well, it's just the terminology you were using was a bit misleading. You say ' Hey Rooy, so its possible to copy binary numbers from memory?' All his function does is converts an integer (that's in memory, yes) into a binary number. It doesn't copy the binary bit arrangement directly from memory. It uses mathematical operations on an integer in base-10, that it gets from the binary in memory, to convert it to base-2. You could do the same for 16, or 32, or 64, or base 256 numbers if you wanted to. The point I'm trying to make is that it's not extracting the actual bits from the memory location or anything like that. It's just converting bases. It doesn't matter that the number is stored as binary cause to Python it's an integer. Think of it like this.
This is what's happening Memory Python Binary_function [ 0000001] -> 1 -> [0000001] It's not going from here Memory Python [0000100] -> 4 To here... Memory Python [0000100] -> [0000100] Do you see what I mean? Python still sees the memory location as an integer, so it still stores the value (within python) in base-10, not in base-2. So even though the memory location has the actual bits, we can't access them. We can only get access to the python base-10 value. But it's fairly trivial to convert this integer into a binary list. It _is_ going through 2 conversions, though, the binary isn't directly accessed, as I got the impression you thought. ' I had the impression that this could be done, but obviously it is too much for me. This way is going to be faster than the hack that I tried before, right? Thanks for the module : )' I didn't see the hack you did before, so I don't know. But what he sent was a function, not a module. A module is quite a bit more of a complicated beastie than a function is. the wikipedia definition goes something like this: 'a *module* is a software entity that groups a set of (typically cohesive <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesion_%28computer_science%29>) subprograms <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprogram> and data structures <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_structure>. Modules are units that can be compiled <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler> separately, which makes them reusable and allows multiple programmers to work on different modules simultaneously. Modules also promote modularity <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity_%28programming%29> and encapsulation (i.e. information hiding <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_hiding>), both of which can make complex programs easier to understand.' Not sure what exactly a module is (I get it confused with packages) in Python. Perhaps someone can help here? >> 89+11 = 100, which is longer than the list. >> > > Thanks Luke. > Sure, glad to help :-] _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
