Grant Edwards wrote: > While you're at it, the pickle modules need to be fixed so they > support NaN and Inf. ;) The NaN problem is portability -- NaN values are not standard, and pretending they are won't help. There are many possible NaNs, several of which have desirable behaviors, and different processors (and Floating Point settings) choose different bit representations for those NaNs. There are at least: Inf, -Inf, NaN, Ind (Indeterminant).
Being able to pickle some of these will produce values that "don't behave right" on a different machine. Up until now, I think you can send a pickle of a data structure and unpickle it on a different processor to get equivalent data. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
