<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> my python 2.3.4 for windows refuse to execute line float("NaN"). It
> says:
>
>>>> float("NaN")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ValueError: invalid literal for float(): NaN
>
> The same line works as expected on Linux and Solaris with python 2.3.4.
> Could anybody explain what is possibly wrong here? is it bug or
> feature?
feature, sort of. see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0754.html :
"Currently, the handling of IEEE 754 special values in Python
depends on the underlying C library. Unfortunately, there is little
consistency between C libraries in how or whether these values
are handled. For instance, on some systems "float('Inf')" will
properly return the IEEE 754 constant for positive infinity. On
many systems, however, this expression will instead generate
an error message."
the PEP includes a pointer to a module that lets you replace that "float"
with the fully portable:
import fpconst
def myfloat(x):
if x == "NaN":
return fpconst.NaN
return float(x)
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