4 thoughts on “Representing floats as a series of hex values”
Does anyone have any ideas on how to represent a float value as 4 hexadecimal values when the struct module is unavailable? In C you would just cast a float* to an uint8_t* and iterate over the 4 bytes but I cannot figure out how to concatenate them back to a float in Python.
An example please?
3.14 is represented as 0x4048f5c3 or [0x40 0x48, 0xf5, 0xc3] when using IEEE754 floating point notation. This can easily be sent as 4 bytes from a C program and then decoded back to a float using the python struct module:
>>> struct.unpack('>f', 'x40x48xf5xc3')
(3.140000104904175,)
However, since the Telit interpreter lacks this module it becomes trickier. Anyway, I rolled my own decoder which turned out to be fairly trivial. A bit slow, perhaps:
def get_float(data):
"""
Extracts a float value encoded as IEEE 754 single point precision.
@param data: List to read data from.
@return: Data converted to a single precision floating point value.
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Does anyone have any ideas on how to represent a float value as 4 hexadecimal values when the struct module is unavailable? In C you would just cast a float* to an uint8_t* and iterate over the 4 bytes but I cannot figure out how to concatenate them back to a float in Python.
An example please?
3.14 is represented as 0x4048f5c3 or [0x40 0x48, 0xf5, 0xc3] when using IEEE754 floating point notation. This can easily be sent as 4 bytes from a C program and then decoded back to a float using the python struct module:
>>> struct.unpack('>f', 'x40x48xf5xc3')(3.140000104904175,)However, since the Telit interpreter lacks this module it becomes trickier. Anyway, I rolled my own decoder which turned out to be fairly trivial. A bit slow, perhaps:
def get_float(data):"""Extracts a float value encoded as IEEE 754 single point precision.@param data: List to read data from.@return: Data converted to a single precision floating point value."""int_val = get_uint32(data)SIGN_MASK = 0x80000000EXP_MASK = 0x7F800000FRAC_MASK = 0x7FFFFF# Extract sign, the most significant bitnegative = int_val & SIGN_MASK# Extract exponentexp = ((int_val & EXP_MASK) >> 23) - 127# Calculate significandsig = 0x800000 | (int_val & FRAC_MASK)sig = float(sig) / 0x800000# Calculate final float value.val = sig * (2 ** exp)return -val if negative else valMuch appreciated Marco!