Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-14 Thread geremy condra
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > geremy condra writes: > >> You know, I've never been a part of a community in which the URL >> format was the most contentious part of filing a bug report. > > Heck no, the bug report is already filed, and contentions about the bug > report sh

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On 13 Jun 2010 18:23:28 -0700 a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > What's your cite that URLs never end with a period? AFAIK, that's > perfectly valid by the rules. Technically that may be true but when do you ever see one? If your email client discards trailing periods I think you can expect i

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread Ben Finney
geremy condra writes: > You know, I've never been a part of a community in which the URL > format was the most contentious part of filing a bug report. Heck no, the bug report is already filed, and contentions about the bug report should presumably be going into that report. This issue isn't abo

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:05:28 -0700, geremy condra wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Ben Finney > wrote: >> a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: >> >>> In article , >>> geremy condra   wrote: >>> > >>> >Bug filed, http://bugs.python.org/issue8986. [...] > You know, I've never been a part

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread geremy condra
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > >> In article , >> geremy condra   wrote: >> > >> >Bug filed, http://bugs.python.org/issue8986. >> >> Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs. > > The punctuation isn't extraneous; it's a necessary p

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread Ben Finney
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > In article , > geremy condra wrote: > > > >Bug filed, http://bugs.python.org/issue8986. > > Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs. The punctuation isn't extraneous; it's a necessary part of a natural English sentence. That's where it belongs. Bet

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread Aahz
In article , D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: >On 13 Jun 2010 09:49:03 -0700 >a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: >> >> Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs. That period is a valid >> URL character, but it's invalid for this URL, and it's not obvious to the >> reader whether the period should b

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On 13 Jun 2010 09:49:03 -0700 a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > >Bug filed, http://bugs.python.org/issue8986. > > Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs. That period is a valid > URL character, but it's invalid for this URL, and it's not obvious to the > reader whether the period shou

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Jun 13, 12:56 am, geremy condra wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Robert Kern wrote: > > On 2010-06-12 17:49 , geremy condra wrote: > > >> In Python3.2, calling math.erfc with a value in [-27.2, -30) raises > >> an OverflowError: math range error. This is inconsistent with the > >> erf

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread Aahz
In article , geremy condra wrote: > >Bug filed, http://bugs.python.org/issue8986. Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs. That period is a valid URL character, but it's invalid for this URL, and it's not obvious to the reader whether the period should be part of the URL. URLs in gener

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-12 Thread geremy condra
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:49:37 -0700, geremy condra wrote: > >> In Python3.2, calling math.erfc with a value in [-27.2, -30) raises an >> OverflowError: math range error. This is inconsistent with the erfc >> function from scipy (scipy.speci

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-12 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:49:37 -0700, geremy condra wrote: > In Python3.2, calling math.erfc with a value in [-27.2, -30) raises an > OverflowError: math range error. This is inconsistent with the erfc > function from scipy (scipy.special.erfc) as well as with the C99 > function by the same name, bo

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-12 Thread geremy condra
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Robert Kern wrote: > On 2010-06-12 17:49 , geremy condra wrote: >> >> In Python3.2, calling math.erfc with a value in [-27.2, -30) raises >> an OverflowError: math range error. This is inconsistent with the >> erfc function from scipy (scipy.special.erfc) as well a

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-12 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-06-12 17:49 , geremy condra wrote: In Python3.2, calling math.erfc with a value in [-27.2, -30) raises an OverflowError: math range error. This is inconsistent with the erfc function from scipy (scipy.special.erfc) as well as with the C99 function by the same name, both of which return 2.