Binary representation of floating point numbers

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Sorry for the late response, but the subject didn't catch my
attention ...

Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> writes:

> 63q2o4i02 at sneakemail.com writes:
>
>> In float mode, the instrument returns a sequence of bits that are
>> exactly the ieee754 number in the case of floats, or just the
>> flags in the case of flags.  PyVisa, when set to float mode, will
>> convert everything to float, because it is unaware apriori that
>> one of the fields returned is actually intended to be used as
>> binary flags.
>
> You need to get PyVisa to return strings of bytes to you.

PyVISA does so when calling the read_raw() method.

> [...]
>
> Struct is the right tool for the job.

Exactly.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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