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
  • Replace stream searching with seeks
  • Remove reliance on range checking exceptions
  • Swap insert() and overwrite() arguments
  • Use explicit construction helpers
  • Separate literals with commas
  • Use explicit Array construction
  • Check file object usage in from_file()
  • Replace bitarray compatibility
  • Update names and dtype spellings
  • Replace global options and modes
  • Apply MX scale factors yourself
  • Check values, truth tests and rounding
  • Prefer the new underscored method names
  • Update exception handling
  • Remove command-line usage
  • Suggested upgrade order