NaN handling

[Robert Kern]

Ivan Vinogradov wrote:

> It doesn't seem to be here under OSX either (universal Python install).

It's not enabled by default. In the source distribution, it is
Modules/fpectlmodule.c .

> Since numpy seems to be working on a variety of platforms/hardware,
> how hard would it be to extract this functionality from it to add to  
> Python proper?

Harder than just enabling fpectl.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
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