Bugs item #1255395, was opened at 2005-08-10 02:15
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Category: Windows
Group: Platform-specific
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Steven Bird (stevenbird)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: float('-inf')
Initial Comment:
Python 2.4.1 on Windows raises "ValueError: invalid
literal for float(): -inf", though this works just fine
on unix distributions of Python 2.4.1.
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>Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Date: 2005-08-10 13:56
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Well, everything to do with special floating point values is a platform
dependent crapshoot (in fact, if you want to read more, googling for
"platform dependent crapshoot" works quite well...).
Are you interested in working on a patch? It's probably not straightforward
at all.
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Comment By: Steven Bird (stevenbird)
Date: 2005-08-10 13:49
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Oh, I thought Python 2.4.1 was the same language, regardless
of which platform it was running on. I must be missing
something here.
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Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Date: 2005-08-10 13:35
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At most, this is a feature request (why did you think it would work?).
Floating point to string (and vice versa) conversions are done by the C
library implementation, and sadly they are no consistent (you'll notice that
printing an infinite value on windows doesn't print out 'inf' either).
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