PEP 238 (revised)

[Steve Williams]

Tim Peters wrote:

> [snipalot]

>
> But you can't actually tell anything from that, because the Windows C printf
> suppresses the sign of a 0.  You can't tell by trying to compute the
> reciprocal either (to look at the sign of the resulting infinity), because
> *Python* stops you from doing that:
>
> [snip, snip, snip]

Wot, no sgn() function in Python?  What is the world coming to?

>
> full-754-is-still-unusable-in-practice-ly y'rs  - tim