Float to binary

Question

I\'m trying to convert a floating point number to binary representation; how can I achieve this? My goal is, however, not to be limited by 2m so I\'m hoping for something th

Answer 1

For floats there is built-in method hex().

http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#float.hex

It gives you the hexadecimal representation of a given number. And translation form hex to binary is trivial.

For example:

In [15]: float.hex(1.25)
Out[15]: '0x1.4000000000000p+0'

In [16]: float.hex(8.25)
Out[16]: '0x1.0800000000000p+3'