Bit Position of Recursion Desired

[fhaque]

dns-weekend/part_1.py

Line 47 in 3936c94

RECURSION_DESIRED = 1 << 8

Shouldn't this be 1 << 7 and not 8? RFC 1035 says this is Bit 7 or the 8th bit that should be set (ie. 1000 0000 is RD). In Python if I write int("10000000", 2), the output is 128 which equals 1 << 7. Does that sound right?

Thanks!