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

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 21:02:15 CEST 2011


On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Alexander Belopolsky
<alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to see a patch adding float16 to struct and ctypes
> modules together with the buffer support.

I'm not sure how much sense this makes for ctypes, given that float16
isn't a datatype supported by most C implementations.

Mark



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