Guido van Rossum added the comment: > Historical note: Guido is probably thinking of "the old" pickle and > marshal here, which did have problems with inf and NaN on Windows (as in > they didn't work at all). Michael Hudson changed them to use special > bit patterns instead, IIRC for Python 2.5.
In pickle.py, protocol 0 (still the default in 2.6) uses repr(x) to write a float and float(s) to convert that back to input. Maybe you're thinking of marshal, which is more sophisticated. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1635> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
