Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2005-06-22, Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>...Under Win32, the pickle module only works with a subset of >>> floating point values. In particular ... infinity or nan ... >> >>There is no completely portable way to do this. > > Python deals with all sorts of problems for which there is no > completely portable solution. Remember: "practicality beats purity." > >>Any single platform can have a solution, but (since the C >>standards don't address how NaNs and Infs are represented) >>there is not a good portable way to do the pickle / unpickle. > ... > Fixing it is really quite trivial. It takes less than a dozen > lines of code. Just catch the exception and handle it. Since you know it is quite trivial, and I don't, why not submit a patch resolving this issue. Be sure to include tests for all supported Python platforms.
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