Steve Holden wrote:
Scott David Daniels wrote:
Terry Reedy wrote:
On my Windows machine with 2.2.1, I get exactly what you expected:
1e10000
1.#INF
...
If you get wrong behavior on a later version, then a bug has been
introduced somewhere, even perhaps in VC 7, used for 2.4.
Nope, it is also there for 2.3.4 (May 25 2004, 21:17:02)....
A further Windows data point from Cygwin:
Python 2.4 (#1, Dec 4 2004, 20:10:33)
[GCC 3.3.3 (cygwin special)] on cygwin
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>>> 1e10000
Inf
>>>
regards
Steve
Aha! Same version (2.3.4):
Idle:
>>> 1e10000
1.0
>>> import struct; struct.pack('d', 1e10000)
'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xf0?'
(which is actually 1.0)
python via command line (readline support):
>>> 1e10000
1.#INF
>>> import struct; struct.pack('d', 1e10000)
'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xf0\x7f'
Note the difference in the final byte. Same results (command
line vs. Idle) for 2.4.1.
--Scott David Daniels
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