Logged In: YES user_id=6656 At most, this is a feature request (why did you think it would work?). Floating point to string (and vice versa) conversions are done by the C library implementation, and sadly they are no consistent (you'll notice that printing an infinite value on windows doesn't print out 'inf' either).
Logged In: YES user_id=195736 Oh, I thought Python 2.4.1 was the same language, regardless of which platform it was running on. I must be missing something here.
Logged In: YES user_id=6656 Well, everything to do with special floating point values is a platform dependent crapshoot (in fact, if you want to read more, googling for "platform dependent crapshoot" works quite well...). Are you interested in working on a patch? It's probably not straightforward at all.
Logged In: YES user_id=593130 Snide comments are out of place here. Standard C 89 is generally considered one language even though it has many platform dependencies. Heroic efforts, mostly volunteer, have gone into masking many platform variations. (For instance, look thru the C sources for system/compiler #ifdefs.) These efforts continue. http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html, float([x]) says "Note: When passing in a string, values for NaN and Infinity may be returned, depending on the underlying C library. The specific set of strings accepted which cause these values to be returned depends entirely on the C library and is known to vary." Please read the docs before claiming that documented behavior is a bug.
