[Python-ideas] Exact integral types in struct

Tue Mar 20 20:54:43 CET 2012

Floating points from IEEE 754 doesn't depends from machine byte order
and C double is always coded in 8 bytes as I know,
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
> 20.03.12 20:32, Guido van Rossum написав(ла):
>>> Using the '<' and'>' prefixes to the format string you can force
>> standard size and alignment. Do you have a specific bit of code in the
>> stdlib in mind that is incorrectly using native alignment?
>>> Hmm. It seems that I have been a temporary insanity. I just now noticed that
> these prefixes indicate not only endianess but also size. My fault. Excuse
> me for undue disturbance.
>> However, the trick with struct.unpack('dd') in Lib/json/decoder.py amazes
> me.
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Andrew Svetlov