Re: Efficient Bit addressing in Python.

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  • Hendrik van Rooyen

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    Re: Efficient Bit addressing in Python.

    Lie <Li...mail.comw rote:
    >This of course means that there has to be another
    >thread active to actually do the i/o on a periodic basis,
    >gathering the outputs and writing them out, and reading
    >the inputs and scattering them to the various named input
    >bits
    >
    >Not necessarily. You've mentioned two ways.
    True.
    >I would even not mind if I have to write:
    >>
    >if e_stop():
    > put_everything_ off()
    >>
    >or:
    >>
    >set(push,1)
    >>
    >
    >PS: Umm, a little bit off note: set is a built-in name, I'm a little
    >confused whether you meant on creating a "set" or setting the push bit
    >to 1, if the latter case it might be better to use set and clear
    >instead of passing a second parameter (and also to choose another
    >name).
    >
    True. this was a brain fart - should have been setbit or something.
    >.Alternatively , there is one more way:
    >if bb.e_stop:
    bb.e_stop = 0
    >where bb is some kind of "property bag" and .e_stop is a "property"
    >instead of an "instance member".
    >
    what is the advantage?

    8<-----------------------------
    >Rather than directly using getters and setters, I'd go with property.
    >It (usually) makes a cleaner external interface of the class. And for
    >the mess of having to write lots of boilerplate codes, you _could_
    >dynamically generate the boilerplate code from a dictionary (of name
    >to bit position) and currying (or something to that effect).
    >Alternativel y, you could also do some magic with getattr and setattr.
    I am not too sure I know how...

    - Hendrik

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