data conversion question (binary string to 'real string')

Manish Jethani manish.j at gmx.net
Fri Jul 25 09:35:01 EDT 2003


Alexander Eisenhuth wrote:

> This two lines converts 0.5 to a string in binary 
> representation
> 
>  >>>from struct import *

from binascii import hexlify

>  >>>bin_str =  pack('!f', 0.5)
> 
> now bin_str is '?\x00\x00\x00', wich is the representation 
> of 0.5 in the memory. I need now to convert this binary 
> string to "3F000000", where '3F' is the hex value of the '?' 
> in ascii - table.
> 
> Any ideas ??

foo = hexlify(bin_str)
print foo

-Manish

PS:  You posted the same message thrice, by mistake.

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