On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Laszlo Nagy <gand...@shopzeus.com> wrote: >> That can work ONLY if the division of 1/0 doesn't raise an exception. >> This is why the concept of NaN exists; I'm not sure if there's a way >> to tell Python to return NaN instead of bombing, but it's most likely >> only possible with floating point, not integer. > > For integers, Python will always raise an exception when you try to divide > by zero. And integers has nothing to do with NaN. Because NaN is meaningful > for floating point numbers only. Python can be compiled to raise floating > point exceptions. (On Python 2, this is a compile time option: FPECTL. On > Python 3, this can be configured runtime: > http://docs.python.org/library/fpectl.html )
Thanks, that's the sort of thing I meant. I'm not familiar enough with Python's floating point handler to know those details. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
