[ZODB-Dev] Problem Storing Infinity

[Dieter Maurer]

Chris S wrote at 2006-9-12 11:38 -0400:
> ...
>    return self._dump(meta, obj.__getstate__())
>  File "C:\Program
>Files\Python24\Lib\site-packages\ZODB\serialize.py", line 416, in
>_dump
>    self._p.dump(state)
>SystemError: frexp() result out of range

Tim (Peters) explained several problems with "improper" floating
point numbers (such as infinity and NANs) on "comp.lang.python").
Apparently, such numbers are handled differently by the C runtime libraries
on different platform.

What you see is almost surely such a C library issue.


-- 
Dieter