My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.

So I have a program in Python for use on a Linux machine that's dealing with binary data flowing through what may be a Linux FIFO.<BR><BR>I'm using Avinash Kak's BitVector to modify the data as it ...