Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
I need to pack a floating point value into a vector of 32-bit unsigned
values in IEEE format. Further, I maintain a CRC32 checksum for integrity
checking. For the latter, I actually need the float as integral value.
What I currently do is ... pack and unpack the float using struct....
What I'm wondering is whether there are any better or alternative ways to
achieve this, the overhead now seems enormous and unnecessary to me here.
If you have just a few values, ignore the overhead. Do you really need
more cycles for minesweeper? If you have a vector, look into writing
from the array directly -- using cStringIO if you need to get to the
result within Python, rather than as an I/O format.
--Scott David Daniels
scott.dani...@acm.org
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