unpack('>f', b'\x00\x01\x00\x00')

[Mark Dickinson]

On Dec 1, 10:21 am, Hrvoje Niksic <hnik... at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Chris Rebert <c... at rebertia.com> writes:
> > C does not have a built-in fixed-point datatype, so the `struct`
> > module doesn't handle fixed-point numbers directly.
>
> The built-in decimal module supports fixed-point arithmetic, but the
> struct module doesn't know about it.  A bug report (or patch) by someone
> who works with binary representations of fixed-point would be a good
> start to improve it.

Not really:  the decimal module is for floating-point, not fixed-
point, though its semantics for significant trailing zeros can help
give the appearance of fixed-point arithmetic for simple operations
(addition, subtraction) that stay within suitable bounds.  And decimal
fixed-point isn't so much use for a binary fixed-point format, anyway.

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Mark