struct, IEEE-754 and internal representation

[Robert Kern]

ej wrote:

>     If that's true, then I guess I am confused why Python is displaying
> 148.72999572753906 when you unpack the 4 bytes, implying a lot more
> precision that was available in the original 32-bits?   Python is doing
> 64-bit floating point here? I'm obviously not understanding something...
> help?

Yes, Python uses C double precision floats for float objects.

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