Patches item #1151323, was opened at 2005-02-24 21:06 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1151323&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Modules Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Gregory Warnes (warnes) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: New fpconst module Initial Comment: This patch adds the 'fpconst' module, described in PEP754 to the standard python library. It includes both the source code and the documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2007-02-15 11:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Originator: NO This being a PEP, it can't go into Python without the PEP being accepted first, by BDFL pronouncement (see PEP 1). So as long as this hasn't happened, this patch cannot go in. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Gregory Warnes (warnes) Date: 2006-02-21 17:10 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=9316 Yes, there is still interest in getting this into 2.5. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl) Date: 2006-02-20 13:04 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=849994 Is there an interest of getting this into 2.5? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh) Date: 2005-07-14 14:27 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=6656 For Python 2.5 you should indeed be able to use the "<d" struct format and have it behave itself. Also, you should probably do something like: if not float.__getformat__('double').startswith('IEEE'): raise ImportError, "platform appears not to support IEEE arithmetic" In my experience, isNaN and isInf are usually spelt isnan and isinf (e.g. in C99), and I'd prefer to keep it that way. The tests should go in a separate file, of course. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Brodie (leogah) Date: 2005-03-01 19:53 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=356893 There are some typos in the docstrings: in[i]finity and exponent[ent]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Bob Ippolito (etrepum) Date: 2005-03-01 03:24 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=139309 Maybe you did something wrong, because I tried it and it worked fine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Gregory Warnes (warnes) Date: 2005-03-01 03:20 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=9316 Response to etrepum: Actually, I tried using '!' and '>' without success before resorting to the big_endian_ check... -Greg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Bob Ippolito (etrepum) Date: 2005-02-25 01:25 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=139309 Is there a reason why you don't use the struct.pack endian markers? You could get rid of all the code that deals with _big_endian if you just prefixed the formats with ! or > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1151323&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Patches mailing list Patches@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/patches