Writing some floats in a file in an efficient way
Peter Heitzer
peter.heitzer at rz.uni-regensburg.de
Wed Feb 21 09:51:14 EST 2018
ast <none at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello
>I would like to write a huge file of double precision
>floats, 8 bytes each, using IEEE754 standard. Since
>the file is big, it has to be done in an efficient
>way.
>I tried pickle module but unfortunately it writes
>12 bytes per float instead of just 8.
>Is there a way to write a float with only 8 bytes ?
Use struct.pack()
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Dipl.-Inform(FH) Peter Heitzer, peter.heitzer at rz.uni-regensburg.de
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