[Python-Dev] infinities

["Martin v. Löwis"]

tomer filiba schrieb:
> okay, that would suffice. but why isn't it part of stdlib already?
> the pep is three years old... it should either be rejected or accepted.
> meanwhile, there are lots of missing API functions in the floating-point
> implementation...

It's not rejected because people keep requesting the feature, and not
accepted because it's not implementable in general (i.e. it is difficult
to implement on platforms where the double type is not IEEE-754).

Regards,
Martin