How to create an array of bits in Python?
from bitarray import bitarraya = bitarray(2**20)You can check out more info about this module at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bitarray/
The bitstring module may help:
from bitstring import BitArraya = BitArray(6000000)This will take less than a megabyte of memory, and it's easy to set, read, slice and interpret bits. Unlike the bitarray module it's pure Python, plus it works for Python 3.
See the documentation for more details.
This one-liner converts bytes to a list of True/False bit values. Might be not performant for 6M bits but for small flags it should be fine and does not need additional dependencies.
>>> flags = bytes.fromhex(b"beef")>>> bits = [flags[i//8] & 1 << i%8 != 0 for i in range(len(flags) * 8)]>>> print(bits)[False, True, True, True, True, True, False, True, True, True, True, True, False, True, True, True]