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diff --git a/python/bitarray/README b/python/bitarray/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f36786baee --- /dev/null +++ b/python/bitarray/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Efficient arrays of booleans -- C extension. + +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. All 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. |