I would like to invite those interested in this topic to comment on this issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue10581 On the topic at hand, I would be -1 to allow float('∞'). The case for this is weaker than he case for accepting non-ASCII digits because it is very easy to write a function to replace ∞ with inf before passing strings to float. On Jul 12, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> wrote:
On 12 July 2013 14:09, Gerald Britton <gerald.britton@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12 July 2013 13:36, Zaur Shibzukhov <szport at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello!
Is it good idea to allow float('∞') to be float('inf') in python?
Why?
Because it obviously means infinity -- much more so than "inf" does :)
Do you have the infinity symbol on your keyboard? I don't! So, for me, should I ask for
Do you have any of:
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on your keyboard because they are all valid *as of now* inside the string you pass to float()? _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas