Convert Bytes to Floating Point Numbers in Python *

Question

I have a binary file that I have to parse and I'm using Python. Is there a way to take 4 bytes and convert it to a single precision floating point number?

Answer

>>> import struct
>>> struct.pack('f', 3.141592654)
'\xdb\x0fI@'
>>> struct.unpack('f', '\xdb\x0fI@')
(3.1415927410125732,)
>>> struct.pack('4f', 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0)
'\x00\x00\x80?\x00\x00\x00@\x00\x00@@\x00\x00\x80@'

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