IEEE 754 float representation of a number

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

tommys fed this fish to the penguins on Monday 09 December 2002 06:38 
am:

> hmmm. Expected the line
> struct.pack('>f',3.04) to return these four bytes:
> 
> '\x40\x42\x8f\x5c' (IEEE 754 format)
> 
> but instead
> 
> '@B\x8f\\' was returned.
>
        And what are the ASCII values for the characters @ B \

        You likely have the desired bit pattern, just that some bytes in the 
pattern have printable representations, and hence were displayed with 
them rather than a \x escape.

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