Signed zeros: is this a bug?

[Alex Martelli]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

That bug isn't formally closed yet, and the discussion's going on, we'll
see.  Meanwhile can you try my patch 1678668 just to double check it
does fix everything?  (It's agains the current HEAD of Python's svn).


Alex