On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I need to transmit some data values.  These values will be float and long
> values.  I need them encoded into a string of bits.
>
> The only way I found so far to do this seems rather roundabout:
>
>
> np.unpackbits (np.array (memoryview(struct.pack ('d', pi))))
> Out[45]:
> array([0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0,
>        0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0,
>        0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], dtype=uint8)
>
> (which I'm not certain is correct)
>
> Also, I don't know how to reverse this process

You already had your string ready for transmission with `struct.pack('d', pi)`.

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Robert Kern