intTools: Tools for working with integer values

fontTools.misc.intTools.popCount(v)

Return number of 1 bits (population count) of an integer.

If the integer is negative, the number of 1 bits in the twos-complement representation of the integer is returned. i.e. popCount(-30) == 28 because -30 is:

1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1110 0010

Uses the algorithm from HAKMEM item 169.

Parameters

v (int) – Value to count.

Returns

Number of 1 bits in the binary representation of v.