def character(self, top, bottom):
"Turn two sixteen-bit words into a list representing a bitmap."
# organize the bits into columns
columns = [
[x for x in bit_iter(top >> 8, 8)][::-1],
[x for x in bit_iter(top & 0xff, 8)][::-1],
[x for x in bit_iter(bottom >> 8, 8)][::-1],
[x for x in bit_iter(bottom & 0xff, 8)][::-1],
]
# zip them, to rearrange them into rows.
return zip(*columns)
def assertBits(self, given, digits, expected):
self.assertEquals(list(bit_iter(given, digits)), expected)