[Dino Viehland] > We've noticed a strange occurance on Python 2.4.3 w/ the floating point > value 1.79769313486232e+308 and how it interacts w/ a .pyc. Given x.py: > > def foo(): > print str(1.79769313486232e+308) > print str(1.79769313486232e+308) == "1.#INF" > > > The 1st time you run this you get the correct value, but if you reload the > module > after a .pyc is created then you get different results (and the generated > byte code > appears to have changed). > ...
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