On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 06:30:39PM -0400, Todd wrote:
> It will break an ENORMOUS amount of code. Numpy has its own top-level
> "inf" variable. So all code that uses "from numpy import *" will break.
Yeah no.
py> import builtins
py> builtins.inf = "Hello world!"
py> inf
'Hello world!'
py> from numpy import *
py> inf
inf
Making inf a keyword would certainly break code, but adding it to
builtins would not.
By the way, the numpy inf is a float, so literally the same value and
type as the proposed inf/Infinity builtin. The only way you could
tell them apart is by identity tests.
--
Steve
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