math.erfc OverflowError

D'Arcy J.M. Cain darcy at druid.net
Sun Jun 13 21:11:06 EDT 2010


On 13 Jun 2010 09:49:03 -0700
aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
> >Bug filed, http://bugs.python.org/issue8986.
> 
> Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs.  That period is a valid
> URL character, but it's invalid for this URL, and it's not obvious to the
> reader whether the period should be part of the URL.  URLs in general
> should go on their own line, but at least separate them with whitespace
> (or use the icky angle-bracket hack supported by most mail/newsreaders).

Or get a proper mail/news reader.  That URL is perfectly fine.  Any
reader that can't figure out that URLs never end with a period should
be chucked.  This ain't the seventies where people had to format their
input exactly as the computer demanded.

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