Madhusudan Singh wrote: > The values are returned as IEEE format binary floating point numbers. There > are 4 bytes per point. Multiple points are not separated by any delimiter. > Is it possible to read these directly into a floating point array of the > size of the string ?
Consider using the struct module from the standard library, with format "f". It also allows you to specify endianness in a platform-independent manner, and for mixed formats, supports standard and native alignment. http://docs.python.org/lib/module-struct.html You have a string of length 4*n, so make a format with (for example) ">"+"f"*n, and struct.unpack will return a tuple of length n. For large volumes of data, the array module may be more useful (as someone else has already noted). -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://wintersun.org/ "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
