On Feb 24, 7:50 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> But it would also be rejected, and rightly so, as unnecessary complexity > for the int type. There are already Decimal and float infinities, just > use one of them. Sure there are float INFINITIES that work fine for ints and floats, but where is the consistency? INFINITY need not be a int or a float or a str, or whatever. All it need be is a an object who always returns itself as being larger in any comparison. > Or make your own, it's not difficult. INFINITY should be at the very least a constant of the math module. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
