[Python-Dev] Re: [spambayes-dev] RE: RE: [Spambayes] Question (orpossibly a bug report)

Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Fri Jul 25 12:37:50 EDT 2003


[Scott David Daniels]
> I've been seeing a lot of "we'll have to use float(123)/100"
> messages floating around, and I'd like to point out there is an
> atof-able form for floating point numbers:
>            256.7654e-7  =  2567654e-11

Skip is right that this won't help.  At compile time, Python doesn't stuff
pieces of the source code into a .pyc file, it builds the float objects and
marshals them.  Here's temp.py:

def example():
    return 1e-1

Then:

>>> import temp
>>> file('temp.pyc', 'rb').read()
';\xf2\r\n\xf1L!?c\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00
@\x00\x00\x00s\r\x00\x00\x00d\x00\x00\x84\x00\x00Z\x00\x00d\x01
\x00S(\x02\x00\x00\x00c\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00
\x00\x00C\x00\x00\x00s\x08\x00\x00\x00d\x01\x00Sd\x00\x00S(\x02
\x00\x00\x00Nf\x130.10000000000000001(\x00\x00\x00\x00(\x00\x00
\x00\x00(\x00\x00\x00\x00(\x00\x00\x00\x00s\x07\x00\x00\x00temp.py
s\x07\x00\x00\x00example\x01\x00\x00\x00s\x02\x00\x00\x00\x00
\x01N(\x01\x00\x00\x00s\x07\x00\x00\x00example(\x01\x00\x00\x00
s\x07\x00\x00\x00example(\x00\x00\x00\x00(\x00\x00\x00\x00
s\x07\x00\x00\x00temp.pys\x01\x00\x00\x00?\x01\x00\x00\x00s\x00
\x00\x00\x00'
>>>

The substring

    f\x130.10000000000000001

is the marshal typecode for a float, a byte saying the float string is in
the next 0x13 = 19 bytes, and then the 19-byte string "0.10000000000000001".
The source code's exponential notation didn't survive in the .pyc file.




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