binary data into long/float

[Jeff Epler]

I think you will do something like this:

def heuristic_is_float(l):
    return abs(l) > 10000000:

def readLongOrFloat(f):
    bytes = f.read(4)
    a = array.array('L')
    a.fromstring(bytes)
    if heuristic_is_float(a[0]):
        a = array.array('f')
        a.fromstring(bytes)
    return a[0]

I didn't test my code to make sure it worked, though.

Jeff
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