[Numpy-discussion] RE: Python 2.2 seriously crippled for numerical computation?

[Fernando Pereira]

On 3/2/02 10:53 AM, in article
mailman.1015084565.2836.python-list at python.org, "Paul F Dubois"
<paul at pfdubois.com> wrote:

> I also see the underflow problem on my Linux box 2.4.2-2. This is
> certainly untenable. However, I am able to catch OverflowError in both
> cases. I had a user complain about this just yesterday, so I think it is
> a new behavior in Python 2.2 which I was just rolling out.

It's not Python 2.2 itself:

% python
Python 2.2 (#1, Feb 10 2002, 13:29:43)
[GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 1e-200**2
0.0

-- F