[Python-Dev] "can't unpack IEEE 754 special value on non-IEEE platform"

[Fredrik Lundh]

I just ran the PIL test suite using the current Python trunk, and the 
tests for a user-contributed plugin raised an interesting exception:

ValueError: can't unpack IEEE 754 special value on non-IEEE platform

fixing this is easy, but the error is somewhat confusing: since when is 
a modern Intel CPU not an IEEE platform?

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