Newbie: How To Convert A Float Into Two Sixteen Bit Integers.....?

[John Branthoover]

Hello All,
    Can any tell me how I can take a single precision floating point number
and convert it into two sixteen bit integers using Python?  I need to store
some floating point numbers in a eight bit wide EEPROM.

    Any information that you can give me will be greatly appreciated.  Thank
you for your time.