#3 OverflowError in __init__.py

[Anonymous]

The line
Inf = inf = 1e300**2
in the MatPy initialisation file fails with an
OverflowError under FreeBSD.

Additional details follow.

uname -a
FreeBSD dsp7.ee.uct.ac.za 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
#11: Fri Mar 8 11:04:40 SAST 2002
root@dsp23.ee.uct.ac.za:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DSP_DUAL
i386

Python 2.2 (#1, Mar 25 2002, 15:51:35)
[GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release) [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information.
>>> import MatPy
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/MatPy/__init__.py",
line 39, in ?
Inf = inf = 1e300**2
OverflowError: (34, 'Result too large')
>>>