Paul Rubin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> 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?) > > I wouldn't worry about it. There are Python subsystems (like threads) that > don't work on certain OS's, fine, total portability means not being able to > rely on them, and that's ok. I doubt any Crays are still running, or at least > running any numerical code written in Python. Same for VMS.
Do these systems provide infinities or NaN? If so, then fpconst could be extended to include them. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
