math.erfc OverflowError

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sun Jun 13 21:23:28 EDT 2010


In article <mailman.1409.1276477866.32709.python-list at python.org>,
D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy at druid.net> wrote:
>On 13 Jun 2010 09:49:03 -0700
>aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
>> 
>> Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs.  That period is a valid
>> URL character, but it's invalid for this URL, and it's not obvious to the
>> reader whether the period should be part of the URL.  URLs in general
>> should go on their own line, but at least separate them with whitespace
>> (or use the icky angle-bracket hack supported by most mail/newsreaders).
>
>Or get a proper mail/news reader.  That URL is perfectly fine.  Any
>reader that can't figure out that URLs never end with a period should
>be chucked.  This ain't the seventies where people had to format their
>input exactly as the computer demanded.

What's your cite that URLs never end with a period?  AFAIK, that's
perfectly valid by the rules.
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