On Apr 7, 2005 3:34 PM, David M. Cooke > > I don't do Windows, so I can't say this will work, but try > > >>> inf = 1e308*2
I *do* do Windows, and that does work. The value of inf then becomes '1.#INF' as expected. Strangely, doing float('1.#INF') still fails on Windows. Weird, weird. -- Kristian kristian.zoerhoff(AT)gmail.com zoerhoff(AT)freeshell.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list