bitstring

bitstring is a pure Python module designed to help make the creation and analysis of binary data as simple and natural as possible.

It has been maintained since 2006 and now has about 20 million downloads per year.

Note

Version 4.0 of bitstring only supports Python 3.7 and later.
Use bitstring version 3.1 if you're using Python 2.7 or 3.6 or earlier.

:star: New in version 4.0 :star:

New Python 3.7 minimum requirement. The code has been updated with type hints and legacy code removed.

Shorter and more versative properties are available.

>>> a = BitArray('u8=20')
>>> a += '0b0011, f16=5.52'
>>> a[12:].f16
5.51953125

A useful new pretty printing method. Gives a formatted view of a singe or two interpretations of the binary data.

>>> a = Bits(bytes=b'hello world!!')
>>> a.pp('bin, hex', width=40)
  0: 01101000 01100101   68 65
 16: 01101100 01101100   6c 6c
 32: 01101111 00100000   6f 20
 48: 01110111 01101111   77 6f
 64: 01110010 01101100   72 6c
 80: 01100100 00100001   64 21
 96: 00100001            21

LSB0 option (beta). This indexes the bits with the least significant bit being bit zero. This is the opposite way to the standard Python containers but is usual in some relevant fields.
```
>>> bitstring.lsb0 = True
>>> s = BitArray('0b00000')
>>> s[0] = 1
>>> s.bin
'00001'
```
This feature is still considered a beta as there may be issues with edge cases, especially around the interaction with the 'stream' features of the BitStream and ConstBitStream classes. For most usage cases it should be solid though, so please report any bugs in the issue tracker.
Command line usage. Useful for quick interpretations of binary data.
```
  $ python -m bitstring int:16=-400
  0xfe70
```
Support for 16 bit floating point types (both IEEE and bfloat).

Overview

Create bitstrings from hex, octal, binary, files, formatted strings, bytes, integers and floats of different endiannesses.
Powerful binary packing and unpacking functions.
Bit-level slicing, joining, searching, replacing and more.
Read from and interpret bitstrings as streams of binary data.
Rich API - chances are that whatever you want to do there's a simple and elegant way of doing it.
Open source software, released under the MIT licence.

Documentation

The manual for the bitstring module is available at Read the Docs. It contains a walk-through of all the features and a complete reference section.

Simple Examples

Creation

 >>> a = BitArray(bin='00101')
 >>> b = Bits(a_file_object)
 >>> c = BitArray('0xff, 0b101, 0o65, uint6=22')
 >>> d = pack('intle16, hex=a, 0b1', 100, a='0x34f')
 >>> e = pack('<16h', *range(16))

Different interpretations, slicing and concatenation

 >>> a = BitArray('0x1af')
 >>> a.hex, a.bin, a.uint
 ('1af', '000110101111', 431)
 >>> a[10:3:-1].bin
 '1110101'
 >>> '0b100' + 3*a
 BitArray('0x835e35e35, 0b111')

Reading data sequentially

 >>> b = BitStream('0x160120f')
 >>> b.read(12).hex
 '160'
 >>> b.pos = 0
 >>> b.read('uint12')
 352
 >>> b.readlist('uint12, bin3')
 [288, '111']

Searching, inserting and deleting

 >>> c = BitArray('0b00010010010010001111')   # c.hex == '0x1248f'
 >>> c.find('0x48')
 (8,)
 >>> c.replace('0b001', '0xabc')
 >>> c.insert('0b0000', pos=3)
 >>> del c[12:16]

Unit Tests

The 600+ unit tests should all pass. They can be run from the root of the project with

 python -m unittest

Credits

Created by Scott Griffiths in 2006 to help with ad hoc parsing and creation of compressed video files. Maintained and expanded ever since as it became unexpectedly popular. Thanks to all those who have contributed ideas and code (and bug reports) over the years.

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