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On 07/08/15 07:21 PM, Sean Conner wrote:

It was thus said that the Great Soni L. once stated:

Any reason why string.(un)pack can't do bitfields?

   Performance reasons?

   But that aside, what would the spefication string look like to pull bits
out?

   -spc (Also, maybe it didn't cross Roberto's mind to do so?)
Fn? Dn? e.g. D3D3D2 (or replace D with F) would be 8 bits composed of 3, 3, 2 bits, DX[n] would be a padding modifier? 

I guess I'll just have to wait for Roberto...
(We also can't do booleans either - would make things easier when you have a long format string as you wouldn't have to add a bunch of "var = var != 0" everywhere slowing your code down) 

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