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This module provides an object type which efficiently represents an array of
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booleans. Bitarrays are sequence types and behave very much like usual lists.
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Eight bits are represented by one byte in contiguous block of memory. The user
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can select between two representations; little-endian and big-endian. Most of
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the functionality is implemented in C. Methods for accessing the machine
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representation are provided. This can be useful when bit level access to binary
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files is required, such as portable bitmap image files (.pbm). Also, when
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dealing with compressed data which uses variable bit length encoding, you may
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find this module useful.
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WWW: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bitarray
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