Mark Dickinson wrote: > On Feb 10, 3:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> What Python run on a CPU that doesn't handle the nan correctly? > > How about platforms that don't even have nans? I don't think either > IBM's hexadecimal floating-point format, or the VAX floating-point > formats > support NaNs. Python doesn't assume IEEE 754 hardware; though much > of its code > could be a lot simpler if it did :-). > rywhere ;-). > > Mark
So just use it where it's available, and emulate where it's not. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list