Re: Converting from Microsoft Binary Format floats to Python Float

2005-08-28 Thread geskerrett
Well, thank-you again. It's a bit embarassing, but you are correct ... It was a typo on in the sample data. A bit frustrated with myself as I checked, and double checked, but I guess became a bit blinded to the problem. Sorry to waste your time, and appreciate your assistance and patience. Geoff

Re: Converting from Microsoft Binary Format floats to Python Float

2005-08-26 Thread Bengt Richter
On 26 Aug 2005 07:55:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In the '80's, Microsoft had a proprietary binary structure to handle >floating point numbers, In a previous thread, Bengt Richter posted >some example code in how to convert these to python floats; > >http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lan