Re: [Python-Dev] "can't unpack IEEE 754 special value on non-IEEE platform"

2006-06-12 Thread Michael Hudson
Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just ran the PIL test suite using the current Python trunk, and the > tests for a user-contributed plugin raised an interesting exception: > > ValueError: can't unpack IEEE 754 special value on non-IEEE platform > > fixing this is easy, but the error

Re: [Python-Dev] "can't unpack IEEE 754 special value on non-IEEE platform"

2006-06-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Tim Peters wrote: > Which OS and compiler were in use? A possible cause is that the > platform didn't supply #defines for SIZEOF_DOUBLE and/or SIZEOF_FLOAT > when Python was compiled. This was, e.g., true on Windows before rev > 46065. and looking again, I was indeed running 2.5 alpha 2 (revisi

Re: [Python-Dev] "can't unpack IEEE 754 special value on non-IEEE platform"

2006-06-12 Thread Tim Peters
[Fredrik Lundh] > I just ran the PIL test suite using the current Python trunk, and the > tests for a user-contributed plugin raised an interesting exception: > > ValueError: can't unpack IEEE 754 special value on non-IEEE platform > > fixing this is easy, but the error is somewhat confusing: since

[Python-Dev] "can't unpack IEEE 754 special value on non-IEEE platform"

2006-06-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
I just ran the PIL test suite using the current Python trunk, and the tests for a user-contributed plugin raised an interesting exception: ValueError: can't unpack IEEE 754 special value on non-IEEE platform fixing this is easy, but the error is somewhat confusing: since when is a modern Intel