Re: [Python-Dev] VAX NaN evaluations

2013-11-05 Thread John Klos
I'm sorry to hear that - you might have been wasting your time (but then, perhaps not). We decided a while ago that the regular Python releases will not support VAX/VMS any longer. So any code you write has zero chance of being integrated into Python (the same holds for m68k code, BTW). That sai

Re: [Python-Dev] VAX NaN evaluations

2013-11-04 Thread John Klos
The short answer is to skip those tests on VAXen. The better answer is to patch any isnan functions to always return false on VAXen and patch any code which tries to parse, for instance, float("NaN") to use something uncommon, such as the largest representable number (const union __double_u __infi

[Python-Dev] VAX NaN evaluations

2013-11-04 Thread John Klos
f "NaN"? Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks, John Klos ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com