Robert Kern wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>float('inf') works well, no?
> It is not cross-platform. The parsing of strings into floats and the string
> representation of floats is dependent on your system's C library. For these
> special values, this differs across platforms. Your code won't work on
> Windows,
> for example.
Yes. This is CPython bug #1255395, status "open".
Also CPython bug #44585 (Pickle fails on "inf" values)
PEP 42 contains excuses for not calling it a bug.
John Nagle
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