Turn off ZeroDivisionError?

[Jeff Schwab]

Neal Becker wrote:
> endangeredmassa at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> Would a wrapper function be out of the question here?
>>
>> def MyDivision(num, denom):
>>     if denom==0:
>>         return "NaN"
>>     else
>>         return num / denom
> 
> I bought a processor that has hardware to implement this.  Why do I want
> software to waste time on it?

Will the amount of time wasted by the software exceed the amount of time 
required to implement Python-level access to the hardware feature?  At 
any rate, the work-around should at least let you work on the rest of 
the application, while a more efficient implementation can be developed.