Writing some floats in a file in an efficient way

[Peter Heitzer]

ast <none at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello

>I would like to write a huge file of double precision
>floats, 8 bytes each, using IEEE754 standard. Since
>the file is big, it has to be done in an efficient
>way.

>I tried pickle module but unfortunately it writes
>12 bytes per float instead of just 8.

>Is there a way to write a float with only 8 bytes ?

Use struct.pack()

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Dipl.-Inform(FH) Peter Heitzer, peter.heitzer at rz.uni-regensburg.de