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

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Chris Rebert <clp2 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.