Appendices

This section contains supplementary information about the library, including details of some of the more specialist data types that are supported.

• Exotic Floating Point Formats
  • IEEE 8-bit Floating Point Types
  • Microscaling Formats
  • Conversion
• Exponential-Golomb Codes
  • ue
  • se
  • Exercise
  • Interleaved codes
• Optimisation Techniques
  • Use combined read and interpretation
  • Choose the simplest class you can
  • Use dedicated functions for bit setting and checking
• Upgrading to version 5
  • Minimum Python version
  • Replace stream classes with Reader
  • Update pack() usage
  • Update find() and rfind() checks
  • Use full names for bin, oct and hex
  • Prefer u, i and f
  • Prefer short endian names
  • Use explicit construction helpers
  • Make optional range arguments keyword-only
  • Rename Dtype build/parse
  • Remove LSB0 mode
  • Use explicit MXFP overflow dtypes
  • Use options for module settings
  • Prefer the new underscored method names
  • Remove command-line usage
  • Suggested upgrade order