"Grant Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > The bit patterns are defined by the IEEE 754 standard. If > there are Python-hosting platoforms that don't use IEEE 754 as > the floating point representation, then that can be dealt with. > > Python has _tons_ of platform-specific code in it.
More, I believe, than the current maintainers would like. Adding more would probably require a commitment to maintain the addition (respond to bug reports) for a few years. > Why all of a sudden is it taboo for Python to impliment > something that's not universally portable and defined in a > standard? ?? Perhaps you wrote this before reading my last post reporting that some NaN/Inf changes have already been made for 2.5. I believe that more would be considered if properly submitted. > Where's the standard defining Python? The Language and Library Reference Manuals at python.org. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
