PyWart: Language missing maximum constant of numeric types!

[Rick Johnson]

On Feb 24, 7:55 am, Mark Lawrence <breamore... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Do you want to test for something that is larger than infinity?

Not exactly. I want to set a constant that has a value of infinity and
then do comparisons against the constant.

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# Hypothetical 1 #
##################

def confine(string, maxlength=INFINITY):
        return string[:maxlength]

py> confine('123')
'123'
py> confine('123', 1)
'1'

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# Hypothetical 2 #
##################

def confine(string, maxlength=INFINITY):
        if len(string) < maxlength:
            do_something()
        else:
            twiddle_thumbs()