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

[Fredrik Lundh]

Tim Peters wrote:

> Which OS and compiler were in use?  A possible cause is that the
> platform didn't supply #defines for SIZEOF_DOUBLE and/or SIZEOF_FLOAT
> when Python was compiled.  This was, e.g., true on Windows before rev
> 46065.

and looking again, I was indeed running 2.5 alpha 2 (revision 45740), 
not 2.5 trunk.  oh well.

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