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Efficient arrays of booleans -- C extension.
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This module provides an object type which efficiently represents an
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array of booleans. Bitarrays are sequence types and behave very much
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like usual lists. Eight bits are represented by one byte in a
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contiguous block of memory. The user can select between two
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representations; little-endian and big-endian. All of the
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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
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to binary files is required, such as portable bitmap image files
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(.pbm). Also, when dealing with compressed data which uses variable
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bit length encoding, you may find this module useful.
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