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

[Ned Batchelder]

On 7/14/2013 7:08 AM, Philipp A. wrote:
> 2013/7/14 Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com 
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>     ∞ is not a use-case.
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> it is. OP has it in his/her data.

Looking back through the many emails about this so far, I didn't see 
where the OP explained why he wanted this to work.  Zaur Shibzukhov 
never said he had it in his data, he said, "Is it good idea to 
allow float('∞') to be float('inf') in python?" and, "Because infinity 
is special case of numbers. Unicode standard have regular infinity 
symbol and it's natural to represent inifinity as ∞."

As near as I can tell, we don't have an actual use case yet.

--Ned.

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