[issue5836] Clean up float parsing code for nans and infs

[Mark Dickinson]

New submission from Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com>:

The special-case code that parses infs and nans should be moved from
Objects/floatobject.c to Python/pystrtod.c, so that it's available
for other places that want to parse nans and infs.

The fallback version of PyOS_ascii_strtod needs to recognize nans and 
infinities in a platform-independent manner.

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assignee: marketdickinson
components: Interpreter Core
messages: 86464
nosy: eric.smith, marketdickinson
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Clean up float parsing code for nans and infs
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1

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