Torgil Svensson wrote:
Have you specific insights in Python 3k regarding this? I assume 3k is the next millenium. Maybe they can accept patches before that.
Work on Python 3.0 is going on now. An alpha should be out this year. The deadline for proposing major changes requiring a PEP has passed, but this particular issue isn't big enough to be a major concern for 3.0. It has been discussed for Python 2.6, even. Making float types parse/emit standard string representations for NaNs and infs could probably go in if you were to provide an implementation and work out all of the bugs and cross-platform issues. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco