June 26, 2007
4:56 p.m.
Torgil Svensson wrote:
This seems to indicate that float('nan') works on some platforms but str(nan) isn't. Is this true on Linux? Could anyone confirm this? What about float('inf') and repr(inf) on Linux?
On Ubuntu Feisty (amd64) Linux (but this behavior has been the same for at least the 6 years I can remember.): $ python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 2 2007, 16:27:44) [GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
float('nan') nan float('inf') inf import numpy repr(numpy.inf) 'inf' repr(numpy.nan) 'nan'