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