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Allow float('infinity') as well as float('inf') #46070

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mdickinson opened this issue Jan 3, 2008 · 2 comments
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Allow float('infinity') as well as float('inf') #46070

mdickinson opened this issue Jan 3, 2008 · 2 comments
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BPO 1729
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title = "Allow float('infinity') as well as float('inf')"
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This request relates to bpo-1635:

http://bugs.python.org/issue1635

which allows cross-platform creation of infinities and nans.
The IEEE754 standard, the C99 standard, and the standard on which
Decimal is based all allow creation of an infinity from the string
'Infinity' (case-independent), as well as from 'inf'. Is there any
reason not to allow this for floats? I'm happy to create a patch.

@mdickinson mdickinson added interpreter-core (Objects, Python, Grammar, and Parser dirs) type-feature A feature request or enhancement labels Jan 3, 2008
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Sorry: brain not working. Please close as invalid.

@ezio-melotti ezio-melotti transferred this issue from another repository Apr 10, 2022
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