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

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Joshua Landau <joshua at landau.ws> wrote:

> The best reason was given by the OP, who
> said that it was for data input. If you receive data that uses ∞, then
> it's useful.
>

Are you serious? Why would anyone use non-ASCII text format for numerical
data?

Note that

>>> len('∞'.encode())
3

so using '∞' does not even save space compared to 'inf'.
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