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RazerM on Dec 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Working with Binary Data in Python

Have you tried bitarray[1]?

[1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bitarray

robzyb on Dec 7, 2015 | [–]

It was that easy? Man. Looking forward to giving these a shot...

tonyarkles on Dec 7, 2015 | | [–]

I've used it quite heavily to parse data that comes in 85- and 1275-bit chunks and it works awesome.

Edit: sorry, it was bitstring, not bitarray. bitstring.BitArray :).

toyg on Dec 7, 2015 | | | [–]

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/353/

_yy on Dec 7, 2015 | [–]

+1 from me. Excellent library

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