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[Michael Hudson]

Wolfgang Draxinger <wdraxinger at darkstargames.de> writes:

> 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.

>>> struct.pack('d', math.pi)
'\x18-DT\xfb!\t@'
>>> struct.unpack('d', _)[0]
3.1415926535897931

Whether that's IEEE format is a platform dependent crap shoot, I
think, but probably no more than it is with C++.

Cheers,
M.

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