Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-14 Thread geremy condra
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > geremy condra writes: > >> You know, I've never been a part of a community in which the URL >> format was the most contentious part of filing a bug report. > > Heck no, the bug report is already filed, and contentions about the bug > report sh

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On 13 Jun 2010 18:23:28 -0700 a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > What's your cite that URLs never end with a period? AFAIK, that's > perfectly valid by the rules. Technically that may be true but when do you ever see one? If your email client discards trailing periods I think you can expect i

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread Ben Finney
geremy condra writes: > You know, I've never been a part of a community in which the URL > format was the most contentious part of filing a bug report. Heck no, the bug report is already filed, and contentions about the bug report should presumably be going into that report. This issue isn't abo

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:05:28 -0700, geremy condra wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Ben Finney > wrote: >> a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: >> >>> In article , >>> geremy condra   wrote: >>> > >>> >Bug filed, http://bugs.python.org/issue8986. [...] > You know, I've never been a part

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread geremy condra
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > >> In article , >> geremy condra   wrote: >> > >> >Bug filed, http://bugs.python.org/issue8986. >> >> Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs. > > The punctuation isn't extraneous; it's a necessary p

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread Ben Finney
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > In article , > geremy condra wrote: > > > >Bug filed, http://bugs.python.org/issue8986. > > Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs. The punctuation isn't extraneous; it's a necessary part of a natural English sentence. That's where it belongs. Bet

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread Aahz
In article , D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: >On 13 Jun 2010 09:49:03 -0700 >a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: >> >> Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs. That period is a valid >> URL character, but it's invalid for this URL, and it's not obvious to the >> reader whether the period should b

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On 13 Jun 2010 09:49:03 -0700 a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > >Bug filed, http://bugs.python.org/issue8986. > > Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs. That period is a valid > URL character, but it's invalid for this URL, and it's not obvious to the > reader whether the period shou

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Jun 13, 12:56 am, geremy condra wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Robert Kern wrote: > > On 2010-06-12 17:49 , geremy condra wrote: > > >> In Python3.2, calling math.erfc with a value in [-27.2, -30) raises > >> an OverflowError: math range error. This is inconsistent with the > >> erf

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-13 Thread Aahz
In article , geremy condra wrote: > >Bug filed, http://bugs.python.org/issue8986. Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs. That period is a valid URL character, but it's invalid for this URL, and it's not obvious to the reader whether the period should be part of the URL. URLs in gener

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-12 Thread geremy condra
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:49:37 -0700, geremy condra wrote: > >> In Python3.2, calling math.erfc with a value in [-27.2, -30) raises an >> OverflowError: math range error. This is inconsistent with the erfc >> function from scipy (scipy.speci

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-12 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:49:37 -0700, geremy condra wrote: > In Python3.2, calling math.erfc with a value in [-27.2, -30) raises an > OverflowError: math range error. This is inconsistent with the erfc > function from scipy (scipy.special.erfc) as well as with the C99 > function by the same name, bo

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-12 Thread geremy condra
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Robert Kern wrote: > On 2010-06-12 17:49 , geremy condra wrote: >> >> In Python3.2, calling math.erfc with a value in [-27.2, -30) raises >> an OverflowError: math range error. This is inconsistent with the >> erfc function from scipy (scipy.special.erfc) as well a

Re: math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-12 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-06-12 17:49 , geremy condra wrote: In Python3.2, calling math.erfc with a value in [-27.2, -30) raises an OverflowError: math range error. This is inconsistent with the erfc function from scipy (scipy.special.erfc) as well as with the C99 function by the same name, both of which return 2.

math.erfc OverflowError

2010-06-12 Thread geremy condra
In Python3.2, calling math.erfc with a value in [-27.2, -30) raises an OverflowError: math range error. This is inconsistent with the erfc function from scipy (scipy.special.erfc) as well as with the C99 function by the same name, both of which return 2. I suspect that this is the result of the cut