float separationn

[Aahz]

In article <3CE2DA16.3050209 at darkstargames.de>,
Wolfgang Draxinger  <wdraxinger at darkstargames.de> wrote:
>
>This is not really C/C++ related, but I think this is also a place to ask:
>I'm currently working on a compressed 3D Object interchange format.
>With C/C++ its no problem to raw-write the IEEE standard floats the data 
>consists of into files. Now I'm writing some export scripts for blender 
>in python. My problem is, that the python float object doesn't provide a 
>raw-data access. What I need now, is some possibility to construct the 
>IEEE float format from data returned by the standard math functions.
>I think frexp() is a good start, however this still returns a float 
>value. I'd like to have the raw bits...

See _floatToString() in 
http://starship.python.net/crew/aahz/Decimal.py
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