byte pattern representation of a bigfloat?

[rjfarmer]

Is it possible to convert a bigfloat number into its underlying byte pattern? I'm trying to convert to/from quad precision numbers between fortran/python (with bigfloat storing things python side) and using a (ctypes.c_ubyte * 16) array to pass to fortran.

Thanks

[jiahzhang]

Were you able to find a way to get the byte pattern?

[rjfarmer]

No