On 2008-02-10, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Python's a/0 outcome doesn't violate the standards
It does.
> because Python doesn't promise to follow the IEEE 754 standard in the first
> place.
Whether a certain behavior violates that standard is
independant of whether somebody promised to follow the standard
or not.
> Mark and I are working hard to make math in Python more
> reliable across platforms. So far we have fixed a lot of
> problems but we haven't discussed the a/0 matter.
>
> The best we could give you is an option that makes Python's floats more
> IEEE 754 like:
>
>>>> from somemodule import ieee754
>>>> with ieee754:
> ... r = a/0
> ... print r
> inf
That would be great.
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