On 2005-11-09, ej <> wrote:
> If that's true, then I guess I am confused why Python is displaying
> 148.72999572753906 when you unpack the 4 bytes, implying a lot more
> precision that was available in the original 32-bits? Python is doing
> 64-bit floating point here?
Yes. C-Python "float" objects are of the C type "double" and
use 64-bit IEEE-754 representation on all the common platforms
I know about.
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