silly encoder ideas

sillyencoder.py

def bit_count(byte_or_num):
    bits = 0
    if isinstance(bytes, byte_or_num):
        n = ord(byte_or_num)
    else:
        n = byte_or_num
    while n > 1:  # n >= 1 ????
        n //= 2
        bits += 1
    return bits

class SillyEncoder(object):
    __decodeables__ = ('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
                       'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
                       '1234567890')

    def __init__(self):
        self.__decodeables = self.__decodeables__
        self.__bw = len(self.__decodeables)
        assert self.__bw < 256, "O.o"
        self.__bw_bit_count = bit_count(self.__bw)

    def __iter_encoded_bytes(self, bytestring):
        while bytestring:
            byte = ord(bytestring[0])
            rep_bytes = byte >> self.__bw_bit_count



            bytestring >>= self.__bw_bit_count
            yield chr

    def encode(self, bytestring):
        return str(self.__iter_encoded_bytes())

    def decode(self, string):
        pass