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

[Laurens Van Houtven]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Gerald Britton <gerald.britton at gmail.com>wrote:

> OK, so you need users with Greek keyboards, I suppose.  I'm not sure
> the number of those that also use Python applications justifies adding
> this kind of sugar to the language.
>

I'm not sure why you're so focused on keyboards. Perhaps "user input" was a
poor choice of words on my part: that may just as well come from a
different computer :) Or maybe it's a parsed mathematical document. It
doesn't necessarily literally have to be typed in by someone.

Joshua, elsewhere in this thread, already enumerated all the things float
currently accepts. I hope you'll agree that they're far, far more exotic
than an infinity sign.


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> Gerald Britton
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