Signed zeros: is this a bug?

[Mark Dickinson]

On Mar 11, 2:59 pm, a... at mac.com (Alex Martelli) wrote:
> [...]
> OTOH, Python 2.4 works just fine...:
>
> Python 2.4.3 (#1, Apr  7 2006, 10:54:33)
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> 0.0,-0.0
> (0.0, -0.0)
> >>> -0.0,0.0
>
> (-0.0, 0.0)
>
> so it seems to be very specifically a 2.5 problem.

I've filed a bug report (bug #1678380) and got an impressively
quick response from MvL.  It looks like this is a `won't fix'.
Oh well.

Thanks for all your help.

Mark