NaN handling

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-05-06, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

>> That's Python 2.4.1 on Mac OS X.
>
>>>> float("NaN")
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#5>", line 1, in -toplevel-
>     float("NaN")
> ValueError: invalid literal for float(): NaN
>
> As Tim Peters has said often enough, this sort of thing is specific to the 
> underlying C library and will remain so until someone cares enough to write 
> or fund a cross-platform solution.

Yea, that's a royal PITA.  I had to add my own code into the
"pickle" classes to handle NaNs.  Having a pickler that only
works for a subset of the legal IEEE FP values proved to be
sort of useless.

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