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  r69459 | mark.dickinson | 2009-02-09 14:18:43 +0000 (Mon, 09 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #4575: fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs.
  It now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
+  it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
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 - Issue #5137: Make len() correctly raise a TypeError when a __len__ method
   returns a non-number type.