[Python-Dev] Asynchronous context manager in a typical network server

[Sven R. Kunze]

On 18.12.2015 22:09, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I guess we could make the default arg to sleep() 1e9. Or make it None 
> and special-case it. I don't feel strongly about this -- I'm not sure 
> how baffling it would be to accidentally leave out the delay and find 
> your code sleeps forever rather than raising an error (since if you 
> don't expect the infinite default you may not expect this kind of 
> behavior). But I do feel it's not important enough to add a new 
> function or method.

Why still guessing the best surrogate for infinity?

Seems like python is just missing int('inf'). :/

Best,
Sven