On 11/26/06, tomer filiba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i found several places in my code where i use positive infinity > (posinf) for various things, i.e., > > def readline(self, limit = -1): > if limit < 0: > limit = 1e10000 # posinf > chars = [] > while limit > 0: > ch = self.read(1) > chars.append(ch) > if not ch or ch == "\n": > break > limit -= 1 > return "".join(chars) > > i like the concept, but i hate the "1e10000" stuff... why not add > posint, neginf, and nan to the float type? i find it much more readable as: > > if limit < 0: > limit = float.posinf > > posinf, neginf and nan are singletons, so there's no problem with > adding as members to the type.
sys.maxint makes more sense there. Or you could change it to "while limit != 0" and set it to -1 (though I probably wouldn't actually do that)... There is already a PEP 754 for float constants, which is implemented in the fpconst module (see CheeseShop). It's not (yet) part of the stdlib though. -bob _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
