This is a good article, but what I&#x27;ve been struggling with recently is dealing with literal binary data in Python.<p>What I mean by that is I literally have data stored in memory, and I want to deal with it in arbitrary groups of bits.<p>Sometimes 1 bit, sometimes 7 bits, rarely 13 bits.<p>My Google&#x27;s haven&#x27;t turned up much precedent.<p>&lt;&#x2F;off topic complaint&gt;