On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:13:15 -0400, Dave Angel wrote: > Inverting the bits of a floating point number wouldn't make much sense, > so fortunately it gives an error.
>>> from struct import pack, unpack >>> >>> def float_as_int(x): ... bits = pack("d", x) ... return unpack("q", bits)[0] ... >>> def int_as_float(i): ... bits = pack("q", i) ... return unpack("d", bits)[0] ... >>> >>> float_as_int(1.123) 4607736361554183979 >>> int_as_float(~4607736361554183979) -3.7539999999999996 >>> >>> int_as_float( ~float_as_int(0.0) ) nan Makes perfect sense to me :) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list