pythonfloating-pointuint16

how to present uint16 as float16

I have a buffer of float16 elements in the memory.
I read this buffer to a list but since I use np.ctypeslib I can't read it as float16. So I read it as uint16 and now I want to represent it as float16.

Simple convert by list.astype(float16) won't help. I found this table https://gist.github.com/gregcotten/9911bda086c5850cb513b2980cca7648 and according to that table it works.

I want to write a python function for convention unint16_as_float16 but don't know what are the rules.

I appreciate your help.

Solution

  • I found a solution by NumPy.

    uint16_list.**view**(np.float16)