/Sébastien Boisgérault wrote:/
> But, practically, I have never found a platform where
> the following fpconst-like code did not work:
>
> import struct
> cast = struct.pack
>
> big_endian = cast('i',1)[0] != '\x01'
> if big_endian:
>nan = cast('d', '\x7F\xF8\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00')[0]
> els
Hi All--
"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>
> 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 th
Martin v. Löwis a écrit :
> 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 ve
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 o
Search for:
+ fpconst / PEP 754
+ Tim Peters IEEE 754 accident
"""what-the-world-needs-now-is-nannanny.py-ly y'rs"" - SB
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