pickle broken: can't handle NaN or Infinity under win32

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

Tim Peters wrote:
>   Across platforms with a 754-conforming
> libm, the most portable way is via using atan2(!):
> 
> >>> pz = 0.0
> >>> mz = -pz
> >>> from math import atan2
> >>> atan2(pz, pz)
> 0.0
> >>> atan2(mz, mz)
> -3.1415926535897931
>

Never fails.  Tim, you gave me the best laugh of the day.

Metta,
Ivan
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