[Python-ideas] Infinite in Python (not just in datetime)

Thomas Güttler guettliml at thomas-guettler.de
Mon Feb 2 16:27:19 CET 2015


Am 02.02.2015 um 11:29 schrieb Steven D'Aprano:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 09:17:36AM +0100, Thomas Güttler wrote:
>> Thank you very much, that there are some developers who support the
>> idea of infinite in the datetime module.
>>
>>
>> Next idea: If Python would support infinite in the core, implementing
>> infinite in datetime might be much easier.
>
> I don't understand what that means. What does it mean for Python to
> support infinite in the core?
>
> Infinite what?

Integer

A infinite timedelta could be created like this:

datetime.timedelta(days=infinite)

   Thomas Güttler


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