Turn off ZeroDivisionError?

[Neal Becker]

Mark Dickinson wrote:

> On Feb 10, 3:10 pm, bearophileH... at lycos.com wrote:
>> What Python run on a CPU that doesn't handle the nan correctly?
> 
> How about platforms that don't even have nans?  I don't think either
> IBM's hexadecimal floating-point format, or the VAX floating-point
> formats
> support NaNs.  Python doesn't assume IEEE 754 hardware;  though much
> of its code
> could be a lot simpler if it did :-).
> rywhere ;-).
> 
> Mark

So just use it where it's available, and emulate where it's not.