[issue1729] Allow float('infinity') as well as float('inf')

2008-01-03 Thread Guido van Rossum
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[issue1729] Allow float('infinity') as well as float('inf')

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Dickinson
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[issue1729] Allow float('infinity') as well as float('inf')

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Dickinson
New submission from Mark Dickinson: This request relates to issue 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 st