[Numpy-discussion] numpy and bitwise arrays?

[Travis E. Oliphant]

Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:
> --- On Wed, 21/1/09, Stéfan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za> wrote:
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>> From: Stéfan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>
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>> You can also take a look at Ilan Schnell's bitarray:
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>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bitarray/
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> Looks good to me. Thanks for the suggestion.
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You might also make use of the NumPy functions:

packbits
unpackbits
fromfile

Read the bits in as uint8 data using fromfile.

Then, you can manipulate them either using bit twiddling or with 
indexing operations after unpacking to boolean arrays.


-Travis