On 2012-07-30 at 00:44:04 +0000,
Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I wish to extract the bit fields from a Python float, call it x. First I
> cast the float to 8-bytes:
>
> s = struct.pack('=d', x)
> i = struct.unpack('=q', s)[0]
>
> Then I extract the bit fields from the int, e.g. to grab the sign bit:
>
> (i & 0x8000000000000000) >> 63
> 3) Any other problems with the way I am doing this?
No, but perhaps this would be clearer:
import math
sign = math.copysign(1.0, x)
There are solutions that use math.frexp, too, but IMO they're more
obtuse.
HTH,
Dan
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