"Chris Fonnesbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > However, on Windows (have tried on Mac, Linux) I get the following > behaviour: > >>>> inf = 1e10000 >>>> inf > 1.0 > > while I would have expected: > > 1.#INF
On my Windows machine with 2.2.1, I get exactly what you expected: >>> 1e10000 1.#INF >>> inf=1e10000 >>> inf 1.#INF If you get wrong behavior on a later version, then a bug has been introduced somewhere, even perhaps in VC 7, used for 2.4. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
