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

Mon Jun 12 23:06:01 CEST 2006

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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