Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Another reason to leave frexp() untouched is that it is tightly coupled to ldexp() as its inverse, for a lossless roundtrip:
assert ldexp(*frexp(pi)) == pi This relationship is bound to get mucked-up or confused if frexp starts accepting large integers that are no exactly representable as floats (i.e. 2**100+1). _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3439> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
