[Python-checkins] CVS: python/nondist/peps pep-0042.txt,1.54,1.55

Tim Peters tim_one@users.sourceforge.net
Wed, 05 Sep 2001 13:18:51 -0700


Update of /cvsroot/python/python/nondist/peps
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv1947

Modified Files:
	pep-0042.txt 
Log Message:
Added section for IEEE-754 support requests.


Index: pep-0042.txt
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/nondist/peps/pep-0042.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.54
retrieving revision 1.55
diff -C2 -d -r1.54 -r1.55
*** pep-0042.txt	2001/08/09 16:53:49	1.54
--- pep-0042.txt	2001/09/05 20:18:49	1.55
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        http://sf.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=116405&group_id=5470
  
+     - Non-accidental IEEE-754 support (Infs, NaNs, settable traps, etc).
+       Big project.
+ 
+       pickle lacks float('inf')
+       http://sf.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=445484&group_id=5470&atid=355470
+ 
  
  Standard Library
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        http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=426539&group_id=5470&atid=105470
  
!     - Jim Fulton suggested the following: 
  
          I wonder if it would be a good idea to have a new kind of
          temporary file that stored data in memory unless:
  
!         - The data exceeds some size, or 
  
!         - Somebody asks for a fileno. 
  
          Then the cgi module (and other apps) could use this thing in a
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        http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=426539&group_id=5470&atid=105470
  
!     - Jim Fulton suggested the following:
  
          I wonder if it would be a good idea to have a new kind of
          temporary file that stored data in memory unless:
  
!         - The data exceeds some size, or
  
!         - Somebody asks for a fileno.
  
          Then the cgi module (and other apps) could use this thing in a
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        append a newline, or to append something else than a newline.
  
!       Proposal: 
  
!         - get rid of the input size check 
  
          - add an optional argument giving the delimiter string to be
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        append a newline, or to append something else than a newline.
  
!       Proposal:
  
!         - get rid of the input size check
  
          - add an optional argument giving the delimiter string to be