Message 29368 - Python tracker (original) (raw)
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That wasn't really intentional, but the old behavior looks a bit suspect:
$ python2.4 -c "import struct; print repr(struct.pack('>H', 1.6))" '\x00\x01'
We could change it to check for floats and do a DeprecationWarning?