STINNER Victor added the comment:
> Do we add a math.neginf, or somesuch, for float('-inf')? Or just use
> -math.inf?
I would prefer to only add inf.
It looks like float("-inf") and -float("inf") have exactly the same IEEE 754
representation (at least on my x86_64 CPU):
>>> struct.pack("d", float("-inf")) == struct.pack("d", -float("inf"))
True
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nosy: +haypo
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