Numeric Q: How to get DBL_MAX, etc. in Python?

[Louis M. Pecora]

In article <ahnc2l$rlm$1 at peabody.colorado.edu>, Fernando Perez
<fperez528 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> In [4]: import kinds
> 
> In [5]: kinds.default_float_kind.
> kinds.default_float_kind.DIG
> kinds.default_float_kind.EPSILON
> kinds.default_float_kind.MAX
> kinds.default_float_kind.MAX_10_EXP
> kinds.default_float_kind.MAX_EXP
> kinds.default_float_kind.MIN
> kinds.default_float_kind.MIN_10_EXP
> kinds.default_float_kind.MIN_EXP
> kinds.default_float_kind.RADIX
> kinds.default_float_kind.ROUNDS
> kinds.default_float_kind._basic_del
> kinds.default_float_kind._basic_get
> kinds.default_float_kind._basic_set
> kinds.default_float_kind._delete_disallowed
> kinds.default_float_kind._properties_d
> kinds.default_float_kind._properties_g
> kinds.default_float_kind._properties_s
> kinds.default_float_kind._write_disallowed
> kinds.default_float_kind.get_property_d
> kinds.default_float_kind.get_property_g
> kinds.default_float_kind.get_property_s
> kinds.default_float_kind.is_internal_attribute
> kinds.default_float_kind.name
> kinds.default_float_kind.set_property
> kinds.default_float_kind.str
> kinds.default_float_kind.typecode
> 
> The kinds module is part of Numeric.
> 
> cheers,
> f

Thanks, very much.  I've used Numeric, but have completely missed this. 
I wonder if there are other modules I don't know about, but I'd like to
in the standard distribution package.  Bet my last dollar the answer
is, yes.  Thanks, again.

-- 
Lou Pecora
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