Any built-in function for smallest positive floating point number?

[Xavier Ho]

I got it to work with Python 2.6.2.

>>> import struct
>>> struct.unpack('d', struct.pack('Q', 1))[0]
4.9406564584124654e-324

Python 3.1 will print 5e-324, which is fair enough.

Cheers,
Xavier
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