Newbie lost(new info)

[Angelo Secchi]

Anton and Howard,
thank you very much (both your sample code do the job) I was really lost
into bit manipulation without any real hope of success!!

Angelo




On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 03:24:57 +0100
anton at vredegoor.doge.nl (Anton Vredegoor) wrote:

> Angelo Secchi <secchi at sssup.it> wrote:
> 
> >>from binascii import hexlify
> >>inf = file('foo','rb')
> >>data = inf.read(1970)
> >>for i in range(223):
> >>     index = i * 4 + 113
> >>     print hexlify(data[index: index + 4])
> >
> >
> >46ee3bb4	(I know that this should be 15612852)
> >00000000	(I know that this should be 0)
> >00000000	(I know that this should be 0)
> >465de39a	(I know that this should be 6153114)
> >00000000	(I know that this should be 0)
> >00000000	(I know that this should be 0)
> 
> Based on this message:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?&selm=1993Aug25.074420.28786%40bhof01.ctg.nl
> 
> I wrote a function that maybe could do it (use at own risk). It
> converts  a 4-byte real from "IBM System/370 Floating Point Format" to
> a Python float. In your code above replace one line:
> 
> >>     print hexlify(data[index: index + 4])
> 
> with:
> 
> >>     print ibm370tofloat(data[index: index + 4])
> 
> 
> The conversion function and a test function:
> 
> import struct
> 
> def ibm370tofloat(fourbytes):
>     i = struct.unpack('>I',fourbytes)[0]
>     sign = [1,-1][bool(i & 0x100000000L)]
>     characteristic = ((i >> 24) & 0x7f) - 64
>     fraction = (i & 0xffffff)/float(0x1000000L)
>     return sign*16**characteristic*fraction   
> 
> def test():
>     import binascii
>     pi = "413243f7"
>     s1 = "46ee3bb4"
>     s2 = "465de39a"
>     for x in [pi,s1,s2]:
>         y = binascii.unhexlify(x)
>         print ibm370tofloat(y)
> 
> if __name__=='__main__':
>     test()
> 
> output:
> 
> 3.14159297943
> 15612852.0
> 6153114.0
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Anton
> 
> 
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