Writing formatted data (numeric) to a binary file

[Robert Kern]

Trevor.Dhu at hotmail.com wrote:

> I'm conscious that the "write" command would allow me to write text to
> a binary file, but I'm not clear how to:
> 1) format my numeric data such that it matches the real*4 format
> 2) parse an entire row of a 2D array without using a for loop.

For homogeneous blocks of numbers like this, you'll probably want to use
Numeric of numarray.

  http://numeric.scipy.org

import Numeric
data = Numeric.array(all_of_the_numbers, Numeric.Float32)
s = data.tostring()
f = open(filename, 'wb')
f.write(s)
f.close()

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Robert Kern
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