2.0b2: SystemError: frexp() result out of range

[Anthony J Doggett UG]

Please, if I were to ask nicely for our local installation of python to
be upgraded, would the bug shown below to go away?

What's the best way to get around it?
(Alas, binary mode is a must.)

Thanks,
  Anthony.

> python
Python 2.0b2 (#1, Oct  9 2000, 18:12:36) 
[GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
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>>> import cPickle
>>> f = open('delme', 'w')
>>> cPickle.dump(float('inf'), f, 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
SystemError: frexp() result out of range

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