Converting a float to bytearray

Question

So, what I am trying to do is convert a float to a bytearray but I keep on receiving both no input, and EXTREME slowing/freezing of my computer. My code is

Answer 1

The result I would want from 5.1 is 0x40 a3 33 33 or 64 163 51 51. Not as a string.

To get the desired list of integers from the float:

>>> import struct
>>> list(struct.pack("!f", 5.1))
[64, 163, 51, 51]

Or the same as a bytearray type:

>>> bytearray(struct.pack("!f", 5.1))
bytearray(b'@\xa333')

Note: the bytestring (bytes type) contains exactly the same bytes:

>>> struct.pack("!f", 5.1)
b'@\xa333'
>>> for byte in struct.pack("!f", 5.1):
...    print(byte)
...
64
163
51
51

The difference is only in mutability. list, bytearray are mutable sequences while bytes type represents an immutable sequence of bytes. Otherwise, bytes and bytearray types have a very similar API.