Re: Python 2.4 does not marshal infinity floating point properly under Win32

2006-11-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Pierre Rouleau schrieb: > Is this considered an important enough bug to fix it in Python 2.4? To the contrary - it's not considered a bug at all. Python didn't make any promises about "unregular" floating point values, so things like that just may happen. The fix that made Python offer stronger g

Re: Python 2.4 does not marshal infinity floating point properly under Win32

2006-11-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-11-30, Pierre Rouleau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When using Python 2.4.x on a Win32 box, > marshal.loads(marshal.dumps(1e6)) returns 1.0 instead of infinity > as it should and does under Python 2.5 (also running on Win32 ). > > This problem was reported in another thread here by Pet