[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Michael> If you're going to change CPython to do this, I think adopting
> Michael> PEP 754, and using the fpconst module would be better than
> Michael> changing how float() works when called on string literals.
>
> But PEP 754 will only work for architectures supporting IEEE 754. I realize
> that's the vast majority of systems, but aren't there still a few Crays and
> VMS machines out there? (Do those architectures support NaN and Inf?)
Will float("NaN") work on these systems? (I don't know.) I guess it
probably works on some system that isn't IEEE 754.
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