It was that easy? Man. Looking forward to giving these a shot...
Re:Working with Binary Data in Python
by tonyarkles on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:57PM
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I've used it quite heavily to parse data that comes in 85- and 1275-bit chunks and it works awesome.
Edit: sorry, it was bitstring, not bitarray. bitstring.BitArray :).
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/353/
[1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bitarray