Help need with converting Hex string to IEEE format float

[Max M]

i_vincent at hotmail.com wrote:

> Each of these numbers is a Hex byte making up a four byte (32 bit
> Big-Endian) IEEE float. I have read this data into Python using
> readlines and then line.split(). This gives me:
> 
> ['80', '00', '00', '00']


Oh, programmers loves this kind stuff. You should get tons of answers.

##
st = '80 00 00 00'

import binascii
import struct

s = ''.join([binascii.a2b_hex(s) for s in st.split()])
v = struct.unpack("f", s)[0]
print v
##

regards Max M

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