On 6/2/11 8:05 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Two of my perennial complaints about Python's handling of NaNs and Infs:1) They weren't handle by pickle et al. 2) The string representations produced by repr() and accepted by float() weren't standardized across platforms. I think the latter has finally been fixed, hasn't it?
And the former! Python 2.7.1 |EPD 7.0-2 (32-bit)| (r271:86832, Dec 3 2010, 15:41:32) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5488)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> inf = 1e300*1e300 >>> nan = inf / inf >>> import cPickle >>> cPickle.loads(cPickle.dumps(nan)) nan >>> cPickle.loads(cPickle.dumps(inf)) inf -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
