bitwise operations between elements in a list

Question

I have a of list of bitwise elements, e.g. [1,1,1], and I want to do a bitwise OR operation between every element in the list. So, e.g.

for [1,1,1] do

1 | 1 | 1 = 1

or for [1,17,1] do

1 | 17 | 1 = 17

How can I do this without looping? Numpy's bitwise_or only seems to work on 2 arrays. Is there a bitwise & or | that works on every element, similar to sum, or np.mean? Thanks.

Answer 1

This works for numpy reduce:

>>> ar = numpy.array([1,17,1])
>>> numpy.bitwise_or.reduce(ar)
17

Answer 2

You can use reduce with operator.ior:

>>> from operator import ior
>>> lst = [1, 17, 1]
>>> reduce(ior, lst)
17

And as suggested by @DSM in comments the numpy equivalent will be:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> arr = np.array(lst)
>>> np.bitwise_or.reduce(arr)
17