From 68e2b8c5747ecc826b1d2ec525d28ad7c54c8efc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcus Fedarko <mfedarko@ucsd.edu>
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2024 07:06:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: add comment to change made ref'ing #562

---
 empress/tools.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/empress/tools.py b/empress/tools.py
index c5b7b3c4..678e5c3b 100644
--- a/empress/tools.py
+++ b/empress/tools.py
@@ -374,6 +374,9 @@ def shifting(bitlist, size=51):
     if not all(x in [0, 1] for x in bitlist):
         raise ValueError('Your list has values other than 0-1s')
 
+    # Convert all the bits to ints -- if they are np.uint8, etc. instead and
+    # we don't convert them, then this can cause problems: see
+    # https://github.com/biocore/empress/issues/562
     bitlist = [int(x) for x in bitlist]
 
     values = [iter(bitlist)] * size