[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> (Note the absence of a demonstration on Windows.) Can't the above be > >> blessed as the One True Way and wormed around in floatmodule.c for > >> those platforms where float'ing "NaN" or "Inf" doesn't currently > >> work? > > Martin> How would you do the worming-around? > > I don't know. On I was just asking. On unixoid systems I sort of assume > you could add tests to the configure script to detect what worked. If > converting the strings works you're done. If not, maybe Robert Kern's numpy > code could be run in the configure script to generate constants for NaN and > Inf that could be used in floatmodule.c. Windows would probably have to be > hard-coded, but except for 32-bit and 64-bit differences it should be the > same all over, yes?
If you're going to change CPython to do this, I think adopting PEP 754, and using the fpconst module would be better than changing how float() works when called on string literals. The only thing I don't like about it is the camelcasing of the functions. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0754/ -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
