[Python-checkins] r46248 - python/trunk/Modules/_struct.c

[Michael Hudson]

Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> writes:

> "bob.ippolito" <python-checkins at python.org> writes:
>
>> Author: bob.ippolito
>> Date: Thu May 25 21:56:56 2006
>> New Revision: 46248
>>
>> Modified:
>>    python/trunk/Modules/_struct.c
>> Log:
>> Use faster struct pack/unpack functions for the endian table that
>> matches the host's
>
> Waa, be a little careful here; it is at least potentially possible
> that struct.pack('<d', ...) and struct.pack('d', ...) produce
> different output, even when the endianness would suggest they should
> be the same, because the '<d' version goes to heroic efforts to
> produce an IEEE 8 byte double even if that's not what the host
> uses natively.

"Never mind!" -- I see test_float found this out for you already.
Unit tests are great :)

Cheers,
mwh

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