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

[Alexander Eisenhuth]

Manish Jethani wrote:
> 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.
> 
Thanks, that's it