On 6/22/07, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Making float types parse/emit standard string > representations for NaNs and infs could probably go in if you were to provide > an > implementation and work out all of the bugs and cross-platform issues.
The float types already emit string-representation of nan's and inf's but doesn't know how to parse them back. This parsing step should be trivial to implement. I cannot see any cross-platform issues with this. If the floats aren't binary compatible across platforms we'll have to face these issues regardless of the string representation (I think they are, except for endianess). If cross-platform issues includes string representation from other sources than python 3.0, things get trickier. I think that python should handle it's own string representation, others could always be handled with sub-classing. At a minimum "float(str(nan))==nan" should evaluate as True. //Torgil _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
