decoding floats

[Michael Hudson]

"Nico Hartmann" <nico.hartmann at daimlerchrysler.com> writes:

> Hi there,
> 
> I look for a way to decode and encode float values into byte arrays.

>>> import array
>>> a = array.array('f')
>>> a.append(42.42)
>>> a.tostring()
'\x14\xae)B'

Something like this?  See

    http://python.sourceforge.net/devel-docs/lib/module-array.html

for more info.

Cheers,
M.

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