On 2012-02-24, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I get sick and tired of doing this!!! > > if maxlength == UNLIMITED: > allow_passage() > elif len(string) > maxlength: > deny_passage() > > What Python needs is some constant that can be compared to ANY > numeric type and that constant will ALWAYS be larger!
What's the point of that? The only time I've naively pined for such a thing is when misapplying C idioms for finding a minimum value. Python provides an excellent min implementation to use instead. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
