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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1997-10-24 21:15:55 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1997-10-24 21:15:55 (GMT)
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Ooops, found too more references to old conditions on floating point values.
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@@ -36,11 +36,6 @@ type packing methods are supported: \code{pack_uint}, \code{pack_int},
\code{pack_enum}, \code{pack_bool}, \code{pack_uhyper},
and \code{pack_hyper}.
-The following methods pack floating point numbers, however they
-require C library support. Without the optional C built-in module,
-both of these methods will raise an \code{xdrlib.ConversionError}
-exception. See the note at the end of this chapter for details.
-
\begin{funcdesc}{pack_float}{value}
Packs the single-precision floating point number \var{value}.
\end{funcdesc}
@@ -138,8 +133,7 @@ if all of the data has not been unpacked.
In addition, every data type that can be packed with a \code{Packer},
can be unpacked with an \code{Unpacker}. Unpacking methods are of the
form \code{unpack_\var{type}}, and take no arguments. They return the
-unpacked object. The same caveats apply for \code{unpack_float} and
-\code{unpack_double} as above.
+unpacked object.
\begin{funcdesc}{unpack_float}{}
Unpacks a single-precision floating point number.