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Removed obsolete discussion on _xdr helper module.

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Fred Drake 1997-10-24 21:14:36 +00:00
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The \code{xdrlib} module supports the External Data Representation
Standard as described in RFC 1014, written by Sun Microsystems,
Inc. June 1987. It supports most of the data types described in the
RFC, although some, most notably \code{float} and \code{double} are
only supported on those operating systems that provide an XDR
library.
RFC.
The \code{xdrlib} module defines two classes, one for packing
variables into XDR representation, and another for unpacking from XDR
@ -230,21 +228,3 @@ try:
except xdrlib.ConversionError, instance:
print 'packing the double failed:', instance.msg
\end{verbatim}\ecode
%
\subsection{Supporting Floating Point Data}
Packing and unpacking floating point data,
i.e. \code{Packer.pack_float}, \code{Packer.pack_double},
\code{Unpacker.unpack_float}, and \code{Unpacker.unpack_double}, are
only supported with the helper built-in \code{_xdr} module, which
relies on your operating system having the appropriate XDR library
routines.
If you have built the Python interpeter with the \code{_xdr} module,
or have built the \code{_xdr} module as a shared library,
\code{xdrlib} will use these to pack and unpack floating point
numbers. Otherwise, using these routines will raise a
\code{ConversionError} exception.
See the Python installation instructions for details on building the
\code{_xdr} module.

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The \code{xdrlib} module supports the External Data Representation
Standard as described in RFC 1014, written by Sun Microsystems,
Inc. June 1987. It supports most of the data types described in the
RFC, although some, most notably \code{float} and \code{double} are
only supported on those operating systems that provide an XDR
library.
RFC.
The \code{xdrlib} module defines two classes, one for packing
variables into XDR representation, and another for unpacking from XDR
@ -230,21 +228,3 @@ try:
except xdrlib.ConversionError, instance:
print 'packing the double failed:', instance.msg
\end{verbatim}\ecode
%
\subsection{Supporting Floating Point Data}
Packing and unpacking floating point data,
i.e. \code{Packer.pack_float}, \code{Packer.pack_double},
\code{Unpacker.unpack_float}, and \code{Unpacker.unpack_double}, are
only supported with the helper built-in \code{_xdr} module, which
relies on your operating system having the appropriate XDR library
routines.
If you have built the Python interpeter with the \code{_xdr} module,
or have built the \code{_xdr} module as a shared library,
\code{xdrlib} will use these to pack and unpack floating point
numbers. Otherwise, using these routines will raise a
\code{ConversionError} exception.
See the Python installation instructions for details on building the
\code{_xdr} module.