Bit masking in Python

Question

I have a byte (from some other vendor) where the potential bit masks are as follows:

value1 = 0x01 value2 = 0x02 value3 = 0x03 value4 = 0x04 value5 = 0x05 value6 = 0x06

Answer 1

You don't need the other two functions:

def parse_byte(byte):
    value7_set = byte & value7 == value7
    value8_set = byte & value8 == value8
    base_value =  byte & 7
    return value7_set,value8_set,base_value