/Sébastien Boisgérault wrote:/
> But, practically, I have never found a platform where
> the following fpconst-like code did not work:
>
> import struct
> cast = struct.pack
>
> big_endian = cast('i',1)[0] != '\x01'
> if big_endian:
> nan = cast('d', '\x7F\xF8\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00')[0]
> else:
> nan = cast('d', '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xf8\xff')[0]
Exactly this code doesn't work. When executing it I get the error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "float_tools.py", line 8, in ?
nan = cast('d', '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xf8\xff')[0]
error: required argument is not a float
Maybe the second line should read:
cast = struct.unpack
However, the actual fpconst.py works fine.
Thanks for the hints,
Andreas
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