[Python-ideas] float('∞')=float('inf')

Laurens Van Houtven _ at lvh.io
Fri Jul 12 17:20:09 CEST 2013


On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Gerald Britton <gerald.britton at gmail.com>wrote:

> I get that we special case infinity.  Its an IEEE thing.  I can sure
> the next request coming:  The various constants represented by unicode
> characters.
>

This is just a slippery slope argument: what anyone suggests otherwise has
nothing to do with *this particular issue*.
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