[Python-checkins] r60341 - in python/branches/trunk-math: Lib/test/test_math.py Modules/mathmodule.c

Sun Jan 27 15:38:50 CET 2008

Christian Heimes <lists <at> cheimes.de> writes:
> Mark and I are trying to make the math module more reliable. Currently
> it's platform dependent when a function raises ValueError, OverflowError
> or returns NAN.

And I'd quite like to be able to remove the warning that you added to the 
end of the math library documentation around 5 years ago. But there's 
some way to go yet :)
As far as I know there are no plans to migrate to C99---all the code 
should still be ANSI C. C99 is just a handy standard for deciding exactly 
what Python should do in various circumstances. (IEEE-754r would 
work too, except that it isn't finished yet.)