On Nov 10, 11:49 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Call me crazy if you like, but I'd name that function IEEEtoIBM.
But it's topsy-turvy day! Didn't you get the memo? Oh, all right. IEEEtoIBM it is. > That's a hexadecimal representation in lowercase with no leading > zeroes ... variable length and lowercase doesn't seem very IBM to me. True. Replace "%x" with "%016X" for fixed-length uppercase. Or as you say, bytes output is probably more natural. I was guessing that the OP wants to write the converted float out to an ASCII file, in hex. Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
