Question

I have a list of 16 elements [a00,a01,a02,…,a15] and would like to compute a list [b0,b1,b2,b3,b4,b5,b6,b7] where

b0 = a00*256+a01
b1 = a02*256+a03
b2 = a04*256+a05
(etc.)

what’s the easiest way of doing this? (I’m a beginner in python)

Answer 1

You can make a comprehension list…

a = [a00, a01,.... ]
#Readed, take a list with 0,2,4... len(a) [15, will stop at 14]
# then make a[i]*256 + a[i+1], so
# a[0]*256+a[1], a[2]*256+a[3], ... a[14]*256+a[15]
b = [ a[i]*256+a[i+1] for i in range(0,len(a),2) ]