Python equivalent to the "A" or "a" output conversions in C

Aldrich DeMata aldrich.demata at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 02:55:16 EDT 2012


Use the binascii module:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> x = np.float32(3.14)
>>> x.dtype
dtype('float32')
>>> binascii.hexlify(x)
'c3f54840'

The final result is little endian so it should be read as 0x4048f5c3
instead.

You can verify the conversion using the link below:
http://gregstoll.dyndns.org/~gregstoll/floattohex/

aldrich

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Edward C. Jones <edcjones at comcast.net>wrote:

> On 06/19/2012 12:41 PM, Hemanth H.M wrote:
>
>  >>> float.hex(x)
>> '0x1.5000000000000p+3'
>>
>>  Some days I don't ask the brightest questions.  Suppose x was a numpy
> floating scalar (types numpy.float16, numpy.float32, numpy.float64, or
> numpy.float128).  Is there an easy way to write x in
> binary or hex?
>
>
>
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