Lou Pecora wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi! >> How can I determine the smallest and largest values of numeric types >> (for example int) possible in my system? I think there exists a function >> for this task but I don't know it. > > There is or was a module called "kinds" which was an implementation of > PEP 0242. I have it and it gives the values you are looking for (and > more). But I don't know where I got it. I think it was once > distributed with Macpython on MacPython.org, but I'm not sure. I've > searched for it, but nothing shows up except my own questions about it > from many years ago and they have no clues.
I'm surprised they also didn't turn up my replies to those questions. > Does anyone know where this package is? Or what might replace it. It > is very useful. It used to be distributed with Numeric. http://numpy.cvs.sourceforge.net/numpy/kinds/ numpy exposes the same information for floating point types with its finfo class. Nothing particular for ints. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
