Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: Thanks for the report, and for the analysis.
I'd call this a bug in the Solaris strtod function (though that doesn't preclude adding a workaround for Python): the C standards (well, C99, anyway; I don't have access to C89 at the moment) enumerate clearly which strings are permitted, and "INFI" isn't among them. string <-> float conversions got significantly reworked for Python 2.7 and 3.1, so there shouldn't be any problem with those versions. Are you in a position to confirm this? It would be fairly easy to work around this strtod issue by backporting the _Py_parse_inf_or_nan and case_insensitive match functions (in Python/pystrtod.c) from trunk to Python 2.6, and using those functions in PyOS_ascii_strtod. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7906> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
