Newbie: How To Convert A Float Into Two Sixteen Bit Integers.....?

[Skip Montanaro]

    John> Can any tell me how I can take a single precision floating point
    John> number and convert it into two sixteen bit integers using Python?
    John> I need to store some floating point numbers in a eight bit wide
    John> EEPROM.

Take a look at the struct module.

    http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-struct.html

I suspect you want to pack the float and unpack two shorts:

    >>> import struct
    >>> f = 6.02e23
    >>> 
    >>> st = struct.pack("f", f)
    >>> s1, s2 = struct.unpack("HH", st)
    >>> s1, s2
    (62713, 26366)

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