[Python-ideas] Re: 'Infinity' constant in Python

On 6/09/20 8:08 am, David Mertz wrote:

Lots of people have noted that being able to eval a repr is only a vague goal in Python, that works *often* at most.

Still, the fact that it *almost* works for floats, except for certain specific values, is a bit annoying.

Maybe the solution is for the repr of a float to be float('inf') instead of just 'inf'.

That still wouldn't work with literal_eval, but I've realised that literal_eval only works on tuples, not lists, so it's of limited use anyway.