Infinity

[Tim Peters]

[Mick]
> Is there an Infinity object in Python 2.1?

Python is completely ignorant of IEEE-754 gimmicks, and any behaviors you see
wrt them are platform-dependent and release-dependent accidents.

> I used to produce one in 1.5.2 using Inf = math.exp(10000), but
> now I just get an overflow error.

Both accidents.  I can usually get away with

    inf = 1e300**2

That keeps the platform libm out of it (albeit admittedly due to yet another
implementation accident <wink>).