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scy opened this issue Jun 28, 2021 · 1 comment · Fixed by #12799
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struct module: Support for half-precision floats ("e") #7467

scy opened this issue Jun 28, 2021 · 1 comment · Fixed by #12799

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scy commented Jun 28, 2021

CPython's struct module supports packing and unpacking half-precision floats with the format code e since 3.6. These are 16 bit long:

  • 1 bit sign
  • 5 bit exponent
  • 10 bit significand

It would be awesome if MicroPython could support them too.
RetiredWizard pushed a commit to RetiredWizard/micropython that referenced this issue Jan 22, 2023
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Merge pull request micropython#7467 from matemaciek/main
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Support for half-floats is now implemented.

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