Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > What makes you think that Python supports IEEE-754 for floats?
That would be an easy impression to get from this long rambling thread. The argument that Python's ‘float’ type is not meant to be anything *but* an IEEE 754 floating point type has been made several times. What would you say Python's ‘float’ type is intended to be, if not an IEEE 754 floating point type? -- \ “Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so | `\ why should they care about it?” —Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG, 2006 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
