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On 04/09/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Guido van Rossum</b> <<a href="mailto:guido@python.org">guido@python.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Is this on OSX? That test has been failing (because on that platform<br>sqrt(-1) returns nan instead of raising ValueError) for years -- but<br>the test is only run when run in verbose mode, which mostly hides the<br>issue. Have you read the comment for the test?
</blockquote><div><br>Indeed, I am on OSX. Yes, I have read the comment for the test. Would the following pseudocode be an acceptable fix for the problem:<br>if sys.platform == 'darwin' and math.sqrt(-1) == nan:<br>
return<br>else:<br> try:<br> x = math.sqrt(-1)<br> except ValueError: <br> pass <br> ... <br>or should I just not bother?<br></div></div>-- <br>Cheers,<br>Hasan Diwan <<a href="mailto:hasan.diwan@gmail.com">
hasan.diwan@gmail.com</a>>
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