Is there an easy way to get at the value of DBL_MAX from Python?

[Steve Juranich]

I'm in a situation where it would be nice to have access to this
value. I've been looking for it all afternoon and can't find anything.

Thanks.

 

[George Sakkis]

I'm in a situation where it would be nice to have access to this
value. I've been looking for it all afternoon and can't find anything.

Where exactly have you been looking ? I guess not in Google, because
the fifth result after querying "dbl_max" is
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2002-July/005916.html,
which follows up to
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2002-July/005916.html.
There is a Numeric subpackage named 'kinds' that provides it along with
other constants, but it seems it has been excluded from the latest (and
final I believe) version of Numeric (24.0b2) that I have installed, so
I can't actually check it.

George

 

[George Sakkis]

Where exactly have you been looking ? I guess not in Google, because
the fifth result after querying "dbl_max" is
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2002-July/005916.html,
which follows up to
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2002-July/005916.html.

Oops, I copy-pasted it twice; the 5th google's result is actually
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2002-July/005907.html.

George

 

[Robert Kern]

Where exactly have you been looking ? I guess not in Google, because
the fifth result after querying "dbl_max" is
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2002-July/005916.html,
which follows up to
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2002-July/005916.html.
There is a Numeric subpackage named 'kinds' that provides it along with
other constants, but it seems it has been excluded from the latest (and
final I believe) version of Numeric (24.0b2) that I have installed, so
I can't actually check it.

It has been removed from the Numeric distribution and no one has made a
real release since. However, it is still available in CVS.

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/numpy/kinds/

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