using struct.pack

[Bong]

Greeting,
I can't seem to get what I think should happen using struct with floating point format. Say I want to pack 0.5:

>>> import struct
>>> struct.pack('f',.5)
'\x00\x00\x00?'
>>>

I would expect 4 bytes and the first one at least ought to be non-zero. Is this a problem with struct or with me?


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Bob Rashkin

 

[feherke]

Hi

According to Perl's [tt]pack[/tt] :

f A single-precision float in the native format.

I would say, floating point values textual aspect not needs to be human readable. Which means, I consider that correct.

If the problem is with the struct module, then an identical problem is in Perl too...

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Bong]

Maybe not human readable, but surely not all zeros, right?

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Bob Rashkin

 

[feherke]

Hi

surely not all zeros, right?

Correct. There is a 63 byte too.

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/