[Patches] [ python-Patches-957240 ] Patch for feature request 491033

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Patches item #957240, was opened at 2004-05-20 08:23
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Status: Open
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>Priority: 6
Submitted By: Josiah Carlson (josiahcarlson)
>Assigned to: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Summary: Patch for feature request 491033

Initial Comment:
The attached patch is to offer the functionality
desired by feature request: python.org/sf/491033

On machines that use standard IEEE floating point
doubles, the 'infinity' needs only to be 1e16 due to
the limited precision of floating point.  1e309 is used
for convenience sake, and will continue to be a
precision infinity until 1024 bits of precision in
floating point values is available.  At such point in
time where 1e309 is available in hardware, it will
still sufficient due to the practical limitations of
counting.



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Comment By: Josiah Carlson (josiahcarlson)
Date: 2004-05-31 22:36

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The attached patch includes both a documentation patch, as
well as a modified loop patch to explicitly match the
documentation.

The patches are concatenated and in standard context diff
format (as per the Python patch submission guidelines, sorry
about the previous unified diff).  The test suite does not
seem to contain tests for asyncore.  It does contain a test
for asynchat, which will be unaffected by this patch.

One thing to note: the use of 'count = count - 1' rather
than 'count -= 1' is to remove potential bugs in the case
where a mutable number-like object with a modifying __isub__
method were to be passed by a user.

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2004-05-31 20:32

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This patch lacks changes to the documentation and the test
suite.

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Comment By: Josiah Carlson (josiahcarlson)
Date: 2004-05-20 08:26

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Sorry about that, I generated the patch by hand and got the
ordering messed up.

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