On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Pauli Virtanen <p...@iki.fi> wrote: > Before introducing a PEP 3118 type code for half floats in the PEP, one > would need to argue the Python people to add it to the struct module. > > Before that, the choices probably are: > > - refuse to export buffers containing half floats >
I think this is the better option, code that needs to do this can create an int16 view for the time being. > - export half floats as two bytes > This would throw away the byte-order, a problem much harder to track down for the user than the other option. -Mark
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