Mark Dickinson added the comment: What use-cases did you have in mind for this? (I assume that something motivated this report.)
It seems to me that there's not actually much to say about the float format: the only format that Python realistically supports these days is the IEEE 754 binary64 format. (In theory we still support whatever C uses, but in practice I suspect that if we were ever to manage to run Python on a machine whose C doubles *weren't* in binary64 format, we'd see quite a lot of breakage.) So the only variation that we'll see is little-endian versus big-endian. We don't even support the ARM OABI mixed-endian format. Should endianness be considered an important part of the format? ---------- versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9192> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
