John Machin wrote: > On Dec 8, 9:34 pm, "Mario M. Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a binary file containing 3 byte float values (big endian). How can >> I read them into python? The struct module does not work, since it >> expects 4 byte floats. >> >> Any hints? >> >> Mario > > What does a three-byte float look like? To write an unpack routine > from scratch, one would need to know position & size of the mantissa > and exponent, position of sign bit, how infinities, NaN, -0 etc are > represented (if at all) ...
Unfortunatly I don't know anything in detail about these floats (yet). Any documentation about it seems to be lost... :( Maybe I can can get some working C code in the next days. Mario -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
