Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
thanks for an exhaustively satisfying explanation!
Alex
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[Tim Peters]
>...
>> It has a much better chance of working from .pyc in Python 2.5.
>> Michael Hudson put considerable effort into figuring out whether the
>> platform uses a recognizable IEEE double storage format, and, if so,
>> marshal and pickle take different paths that preserve infinitie
Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> It has a much better chance of working from .pyc in Python 2.5.
> Michael Hudson put considerable effort into figuring out whether the
> platform uses a recognizable IEEE double storage format, and, if so,
> marshal and pickle take different paths that
[Peter Hansen]
>> I'm investigating a puzzling problem involving an attempt to
>> generate a constant containing an (IEEE 754) "infinity" value. (I
>> understand that special float values are a "platform-dependent
>> accident" etc...)
[also Peter]
> ...
> My guess about marshal was correct.
Yup.
Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> Peter Hansen enlightened us with:
>
>>I'm investigating a puzzling problem involving an attempt to
>>generate a constant containing an (IEEE 754) "infinity" value. (I
>>understand that special float values are a "platform-dependent
>>accident" etc...)
>
> Why aren't you si
I'm investigating a puzzling problem involving an attempt to generate a
constant containing an (IEEE 754) "infinity" value. (I understand that
special float values are a "platform-dependent accident" etc...)
The issue appears possibly to point to a bug in the Python compiler,
with it producing
