Re: Turn off ZeroDivisionError?

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Feb 10, 3:29 pm, Grant Edwards <gra...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
platform does".  Except it doesn't in cases like this. All my
platforms do exactly what I want for division by zero: they
generate a properly signed INF.  Python chooses to override
that (IMO correct) platform behavior with something surprising.
Python doesn't generate exceptions for other floating point
"events" -- why the inconsistency with divide by zero?

But not everyone wants 1./0. to produce an infinity; some people
would prefer an exception.

Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.

Most people would not want this behaviour either::

>>> 0.1
0.10000000000000001

But the justification for this violation of surprise is "Python just
does whatever the underlying hardware does with floating-point
numbers". If that's the rule, it shouldn't be broken in the special
case of division by zero.

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