struct, IEEE-754 and internal representation

[jepler at unpythonic.net]

Use 'd' as the format character for 64-bit double precision numbers with struct.

>>> x = 148.73
>>> unpack("<d", pack("<d", x))[0] == x
True
>>> unpack("<f", pack("<f", x))[0] == x
False

Jeff
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