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Hi
my python 2.3.4 for windows refuse to execute line float("NaN"). It says:
float("NaN")Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ValueError: invalid literal for float(): NaN
The same line works as expected on Linux and Solaris with python 2.3.4. Could anybody explain what is possibly wrong here? is it bug or feature?
Andrei
As others have gently tiptoed around, it's basically the lack of a group of enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers to make it happen.
Nobody is really happy with the current situation, but Python is a volunteer effort, and the current set of volunteers isn't really motivated to put in a very large amount of work on something that they think would have relatively little benefit.
In other words, if someone wants to dig in and do the work, I'm sure the core developers will look at it favorably - as long as it meets the usual standards for core development, including documentation and maintainability.
The bar is lower than it has ever been, by the way. It used to be: It has to work the same way on all supported platforms. Now it's just: it has to work the same on the core platforms, and if anyone else really wants to work on the others, more power to them.
John Roth
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