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Thu Apr 14 15:23:57 CEST 2005 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-April/052676.html

Hi,

  For AIX:

Python 2.2 (#1, Feb 17 2003, 21:43:03) [C] on aix4
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>>> import marshal
>>> marshal.dumps(1e10000)
'f\x03INF'
>>> marshal.loads(marshal.dumps(1e10000))
INF
>>> float("INF")
INF
>>> float("NaN")
NaNQ
>>>


On 4/9/05, Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>     Martin> Yet, this *still* is a platform dependence. Python makes no
>     Martin> guarantee that 1e1000 is a supported float literal on any
>     Martin> platform, and indeed, on your platform, 1e1000 is not supported
>     Martin> on your platform.
> 
> Are float("inf") and float("nan") supported everywhere?
>

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