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[Scott Penrose]

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On 28/03/2004, at 9:13 PM, Joshua Goodall wrote:

> Scott is writing parallel port driver, and some API users confuse
> ascii '1' (binary 0001111) with the actual value 00000001.  This can
> result in more parallel lines being set than expected :).  By detecting
> that the API user actually used a literal 1, you can implement a
> DWIM handler internally e.g. using pack().

This give me an idea...

	->set_byte(0, 12);
	->set_byte(0, chr(12));
	->set_byte(0, [0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0]);

should probably all work. That way if someone already has a bit array, 
they can give that to me :-)

Scott
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