Re: [Python-ideas] Floating point contexts in Python core

I think you're mistaking my suggestion. I meant to recommend that there should be a way to control the behavior (e.g. whether to silently return Nan/Inf or raise an exception) of floating point operations, using the capabilities of the hardware as exposed through C, using Python's existing float type. I did not for a second consider reimplementing IEEE 754 from scratch. Therein lies insanity. That's also why I recommended you look at the fpectl module. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)