On 6/26/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Torgil Svensson wrote:
>
> > This seems to indicate that float('nan') works on some platforms but
> > str(nan) isn't. Is this true on Linux? Could anyone confirm this? What
> > about float('inf') and repr(inf) on Linux?
>
> On Ubuntu Feisty (amd64) Linux (but this behavior has been the same for
> at least the 6 years I can remember.):
>
> $ python
> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 2 2007, 16:27:44)
> [GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> float('nan')
> nan
> >>> float('inf')
> inf
> >>> import numpy
> >>> repr(numpy.inf)
> 'inf'
> >>> repr(numpy.nan)
> 'nan'
I should have guessed this and tried it earlier, but the odds on
Windows in these cases are too low to give something in return. I
think I put this in the bag of annoyances/problems that will go away
with Windows and just live with it in the meantime.
Thanks for this report and all other good feedback from the list!
//Torgil
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