On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 12:36 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> The discussion on this list is plenty. Just write the PEP! > Indeed. I'm happy to help with the writing, and if anyone else watching this thread would like to help out, let us know. Otherwise, the next step is a draft PEP. Cade, I'm happy to work in your fork if you like. Let's coordinate offline. -CHB > On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 12:07 PM Cade Brown <brown.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> All, >> >> For reference, my PEP repo: https://github.com/CadeBrown/peps >> >> >> Guido, >> >> Thanks for helping out. And yes I'd be interested in writing a PEP. I'm >> forking the repository (as mentioned above in my message). Where should >> discussion specific to the PEP take place? Should we move to 1-on-1 email >> conversations, or should it be kept in the public mailing list? >> >> Thanks, >> ---- >> *Cade Brown* >> Research Assistant @ ICL (Innovative Computing Laboratory) >> Personal Email: brown.c...@gmail.com >> ICL/College Email: c...@utk.edu >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:48 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> >> wrote: >> >>> If you and Cade want to co-author a PEP that adds `inf` and `nan` to the >>> builtins, I'll sponsor it, so you can have a fair hearing from the SC. I >>> won't argue in favor, but not against either.) >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 6:26 PM Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks Jon and Chris. But I'm not looking to make a literal_eval or >>>> custom reprs that support inf and nan -- I may need that some day, so >>>> thanks for the tips, but the idea here is to do that little bit more to >>>> make Python better support the float special values out of the box. >>>> >>>> It seems that moving math,inf and math.nan to __builtins__, and adding >>>> them to a "whitelist" in literal_eval (and maybe another place or two?) >>>> would accomplish this. Small benefit, yes, but I have yet to hear anyone >>>> present a downside (other than the usual it's work that someone has to do). >>>> >>>> I took another look at PEP 754 (which was rejected due to disinterest, >>>> not because it was determined to be a bad idea), and note that the only >>>> part that wasn't implemented was the creation of "constants" in >>>> __builtins__ (and, indeed, the PEP is not clear on whether it was >>>> suggesting that they be in __builtins__ at all). The PEP also called for >>>> different names, and a constant for negative Infinity, which doesn't seem >>>> very useful when you can just use a negative sign. >>>> >>>> Anyway, I'm done now -- there hasn't been any interest from core devs, >>>> and I don't care enough to push this, but it would be nice. >>>> >>>> -CHB >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Christopher Barker, PhD >>>> >>>> Python Language Consulting >>>> - Teaching >>>> - Scientific Software Development >>>> - Desktop GUI and Web Development >>>> - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org >>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ >>>> Message archived at >>>> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/4VK6ND3GURQHSXZWHKBX43WOKOOUFRP5/ >>>> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) >>> *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* >>> <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/> >>> >> > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* > <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/> > -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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