STINNER Victor added the comment:

On Windows, the ∞ character (U+221E) is replaced with the letter 8 (U+0038) by 
the WideCharToMultiByte() function for most code pages:
http://unicodebook.readthedocs.io/operating_systems.html#encode-and-decode-functions

Can you please describe how and where you typed the ∞ character? Are you 
testing on Windows? What is your Python version?

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