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Re: unpack('>f', b'\x00\x01\x00\x00')

From Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: unpack('>f', b'\x00\x01\x00\x00')
Date 2011-12-01 11:21 +0100
Organization B.net Hrvatska d.o.o.
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Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> writes:

> C does not have a built-in fixed-point datatype, so the `struct`
> module doesn't handle fixed-point numbers directly.

The built-in decimal module supports fixed-point arithmetic, but the
struct module doesn't know about it.  A bug report (or patch) by someone
who works with binary representations of fixed-point would be a good
start to improve it.

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unpack('>f', b'\x00\x01\x00\x00') kuaile xu <kuaile.xu@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 14:24 -0800
  Re: unpack('>f', b'\x00\x01\x00\x00') Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-11-30 15:02 -0800
    Re: unpack('>f', b'\x00\x01\x00\x00') kuaile xu <kuaile.xu@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 15:25 -0800
    Re: unpack('>f', b'\x00\x01\x00\x00') Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org> - 2011-12-01 11:21 +0100
      Re: unpack('>f', b'\x00\x01\x00\x00') Mark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com> - 2011-12-02 08:25 -0800
  Re: unpack('>f', b'\x00\x01\x00\x00') Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 16:49 -0700

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