Torgil Svensson wrote: > On 6/25/07, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> NaNs and infs are IEEE-754 concepts. Python does run on non-IEEE-754 >> platforms, >> and I don't think that python-dev will want to entirely exclude them. You >> will >> have to do *something* about those platforms. Possibly, they just won't >> support >> NaNs and infs at all, but you'd have to make sure that the bit pattern that >> is a >> NaN on IEEE-754 systems won't be misinterpreted as a NaN on the non-IEEE-754 >> systems. > > Sounds like some clever #ifdefs is needed here. How does isnan() > dealing with this?
It doesn't. numpy does require IEEE-754. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
