convert binary to float

[Mason]

On Jun 1, 5:12 pm, George Sakkis <george.sak... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 1, 3:55 pm, Mason <john.gerald.ma... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have tried and tried...
>
> > I'd like to read in a binary file, convert it's 4 byte values into
> > floats, and then save as a .txt file.
>
> > This works from the command line (import struct);
>
> >     In [1]: f = open("test2.pc0", "rb")
> >     In [2]: tagData = f.read(4)
> >     In [3]: tagData
> >     Out[3]: '\x00\x00\xc0@'
>
> > I can then do the following in order to convert it to a float:
>
> >     In [4]: struct.unpack("f", "\x00\x00\xc0@")
> >     Out[4]: (6.0,)
>
> > But when I run the same code from my .py file:
>
> >     f = open("test2.pc0", "rb")
> >     tagData = f.read(4)
> >     print tagData
>
> > I get this (ASCII??):
> > „@
>
> Remembering to put that struct.unpack() call in your module might
> help ;-)
>
> George

Wow ... I did have it in there, but I forgot include it in my post.
Anyway, this works just fine:

    f = open("test2.pc0", "rb")
    tagData = f.read(4)
    print struct.unpack("f", tagData)

Thanks for waking me up George!