[ python-Bugs-1255395 ] float('-inf')

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Bugs item #1255395, was opened at 2005-08-10 11:15
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Category: Windows
Group: Platform-specific
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Steven Bird (stevenbird)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: float('-inf')

Initial Comment:
Python 2.4.1 on Windows raises "ValueError: invalid
literal for float(): -inf", though this works just fine
on unix distributions of Python 2.4.1.


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>Comment By: Steven Bird (stevenbird)
Date: 2005-08-10 22:49

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Oh, I thought Python 2.4.1 was the same language, regardless
of which platform it was running on.  I must be missing
something here.


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Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Date: 2005-08-10 22:35

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At most, this is a feature request (why did you think it would work?).

Floating point to string (and vice versa) conversions are done by the C 
library implementation, and sadly they are no consistent (you'll notice that 
printing an infinite value on windows doesn't print out 'inf' either).

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