Re: [Python-ideas] Adding a half-float (16-bit) type to PEP 3118 (and possibly the struct module?)

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Eli Stevens (Gmail) <wickedgrey@gmail.com> wrote: ..

What would be required to get a float16 data type added to PEP 3118 (either implicitly via inclusion of the struct module, or explicitly in the PEP itself)?

I would like to see a patch adding float16 to struct and ctypes modules together with the buffer support. Adding features to PEP 3118 that cannot be exercised by the standard library is not a good idea. (Case in point: support for multi-dimensional arrays.)