Terry Reedy wrote:
On my Windows machine with 2.2.1, I get exactly what you expected:
1e10000
1.#INF
...
If you get wrong behavior on a later version, then a bug has been introduced somewhere, even perhaps in VC 7, used for 2.4.
Nope, it is also there for 2.3.4 (May 25 2004, 21:17:02). This is not necessarily a bug in the sense of a fixable bug; floating point has vagaries that are not necessarily easily controllable from the C source side.
While this may be true, it's pretty strange that Michael Spencer reports apparently correct results on Windows 2.3.3 and 2.4, and I confirm the Windows 2.4 result on my own system, while you report that 2.3.4 gives an error. Or isn't that what you are reporting?
A further Windows data point from Cygwin:
Python 2.4 (#1, Dec 4 2004, 20:10:33) [GCC 3.3.3 (cygwin special)] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 1e10000 Inf >>>
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