Hi, On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I guess from your answer that such a warning would be complicated to >> implement, and if that's the case, I can imagine it would be low >> priority. > > I assume the problem is more that it would be a weirdo check that > becomes a maintenance burden ("what is this doing here? Do we still > need it? who knows?") than that it would be hard to do. > > You can easily do it yourself as a workaround... > > if not str(np.longdouble(2)**64 - 1).startswith("1844"): > warn("Printing of longdoubles is fubared! Beware! Beware!")
Thanks - yes - I was only thinking of someone like me getting confused and thinking badly of us if they run into this. See you, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
