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

It's a little verbose but perfectly fine. The only change I'd make is to simplify parse_byte:

def parse_byte(byte):

     value7_set = byte & value7 == value7
     value8_set = byte & value8 == value8
     base_value = mask_bits_on_byte(byte,value7 | value8)
     return value7_set,value8_set,base_value