PyWart: Language missing maximum constant of numeric types!
Neil Cerutti
neilc at norwich.edu
Fri Feb 24 09:25:56 EST 2012
On 2012-02-24, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I get sick and tired of doing this!!!
>
> if maxlength == UNLIMITED:
> allow_passage()
> elif len(string) > maxlength:
> deny_passage()
>
> What Python needs is some constant that can be compared to ANY
> numeric type and that constant will ALWAYS be larger!
What's the point of that?
The only time I've naively pined for such a thing is when
misapplying C idioms for finding a minimum value.
Python provides an excellent min implementation to use instead.
--
Neil Cerutti
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