Reading least significant bits in Python

Question

I am having to parse the Facility and Severity of syslog messages in Python. These values come with each message as a single integer. The severity of the event is 0-7, spe

Answer 1

Try the following

result = FAC & 0x7

Answer 2

The normal way to extract the least significant bits would be to do a bitwise AND with the appropriate mask (7 in this case)

Answer 3

SEV = PRI & 7
FAC = PRI >> 3

Like that.

Answer 4

Just apply a bit mask:

sev = int(pri) & 0x07

(0x07 is 00000111)