BitMask Try It Out pg40 error

xynzee · April 4th, 2017, 10:28 AM

I'm getting the following error for the bitmask project:
>>> bm1==bm3.shiftright(3)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#76>", line 1, in <module>
bm1==bm3.shiftright(3)
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'shift right'

I've checked my spelling and checked my code against the supplied code.
I've even imported the supplied file and got the same error.

I'm guessing that it is related to the next step for "bit".

class BitMask(int):
def AND(self, bm):
return BitMask(self & bm)
def OR(self, bm):
return BitMask(self | bm)
def XOR(self, bm):
return(self ^ bm)
def NOT(self):
return(~self)
def shiftleft(self, num):
return BitMask(self << num)
def shiftright(self, num):
return BitMask(self >> num)
def bit(self, num):
mask = 1 << num
return bool(self & mask)
def setbit(self, num):
mask = 1 << num
return BitMask(self | mask)
def zerobit (self, num):
mask = ~(1 << num)
return BitMask(self & mask)
def listbits(self, start=0, end=-1):
end = end if end < 0 else end+2
return [int(c) for c in bin(self) [start+2:end]]

Alan G · April 4th, 2017, 08:39 PM

The error is saying that bm3 is an integer.
Did you carry out the steps immediately prior to the error:

Code:

...
>>> bm3 = bm1.shiftleft(3)
>>> bin(bm3)
'0b110000'     # did you get this result?
>>> bm1 == bm3.shiftright(3)

However, there is one other very strange feature of the error message:

Code:

File "<pyshell#76>", line 1, in <module>
bm1==bm3.shiftright(3)
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'shift right'

Notice the last line says there is no attribute 'shift right' - with a space...
But your code seems not to have a space? Are you sure you cut 'n paste
exactly what the interpreter said?

Hope that helps,

Alan G.

xynzee · April 5th, 2017, 09:06 AM

Hi Alan,

The code works fine except for the one command.
Got the expected result with the shiftleft.

The space in the error, was this text box trying to be "helpful" and added the space.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#97>", line 1, in <module>
bm1 == bm3.shiftright(3)
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'shiftright'

Code:

class BitMask(int):
    def AND(self,bm):
        return BitMask(self & bm)
    def OR(self,bm):
        return BitMask(self | bm)
    def XOR(self,bm):
        return BitMask(self ^ bm)
    def NOT(self):
        return BitMask(~self)
    def shiftleft(self, num):
        return BitMask(self << num)
    def shiftright(self, num):
        return BitMask(self >> num)
    def bit(self, num):
        mask = 1 << num
        return bool(self & mask)
    def setbit(self, num):
        mask = 1 << num
        return BitMask(self | mask)
    def zerobit(self, num):
        mask = ~(1 << num)
        return BitMask(self & mask)
    def listbits(self, start=0,end=None):
        if end: end = end if end < 0 else end+2
        return [int(c) for c in bin(self)[start+2:end]]

I've tried it with both the code in the book and the supplied same error.

I'm using IDLE Python Shell 3.5.2 Tk version 8.5.9
and
Eclipse Platform
Version: Neon (4.6)
Build id: I20160606-1100

On Mac OS-X 10.9.5

If that helps.

Regards,
G*

xynzee · April 5th, 2017, 10:00 AM

It appears it was the version of Python I was using.

I updated to 3.6.1 and it gave me the result.

Alan G · April 5th, 2017, 11:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xynzee

It appears it was the version of Python I was using.

I updated to 3.6.1 and it gave me the result.

That's really weird; the book was originally written using v3.3 and then retested with 3.4
when it became available, so Python 3.5 should not have made any difference.

Glad you got it working, but there is definitely something strange there.