Andreas Beyer wrote: > How do I find out if NaN, infinity and alike is supported on the current > python platform?
To rephrase Sebastian's (correct) answer: by 1. studying the documentation of the CPU vendor 2. studying the documentation of the compiler vendor, and performing extensive tests on how the compiler deals with IEEE-754 3. studying the documentation of the system's C library, reading its source code (if available), and performing extensive tests of the IEEE-754 support in the C libray 4. studying Python's source code (you can spare yourself reading documentation because there is none) > Is there an 'official' handle for obtaining this information? No. > Similar: How do I get the maximum/minimum double for current machine? By experimentation, and/or reading vendor documentation. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
