Mark Dickinson <[email protected]> added the comment:
I don't see a huge need for this. In 2.6, 3.0 and higher, float(repr(x))
recovers x reliably across platforms
(modulo the occasional system strtod bug), even when x is an infinity or nan.
It's true that using float() doesn't help if you want to eval the repr of a
container with nans in it. But in
that situation it's not hard to prefix the eval with "nan = float('nan'); inf =
float('inf')".
Pete, are you still interested in this? Can you suggest a solution that
doesn't mess up the float(repr(.)) round-
trip? I don't really want to lose the float(repr(.)) round-trip.
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