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[Mike Morasky]> Anyone know how to turn 4 bytes into a float?> These are raw binary bytes, not pickled or marshaled.See the docs for the struct module.  You're going to have to worry aboutwhether your data is in little-endian or big-endian format, and also whetheryour raw binary bytes match the *natural* float representation on yourmachine.Here's on a little-endian WinTel box, building the largest finite IEEE-754double by hand:Python 2.1c1 (#13, Apr 13 2001, 13:58:40) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.IDLE 0.8 -- press F1 for help>>> import struct>>> raw = "\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xef\x7f">>> struct.unpack("d", raw)(1.7976931348623157e+308,)>>>For an IEEE single you need to use the "f" format code instead.  But notethat Python doesn't have C's single-precision floating type:  struct willunpack one, but it will be converted to C double (== Python's float type)before you see it.god-created-the-integers-and-then-gave-up-in-frustration-ly y'rs  - tim

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