On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>wrote: > Or even having literal ∞ recognised as float('inf') BTW, if having literal ∞ was considered as a language feature [1], I would support it: if x == ∞: ... would be an improvement over existing alternatives if x == float('inf'): ... or if math.isinf(x): ... But float('∞') still looks like line noise. [1] .. for some language other than Python. In that language empty set would be spelled ∅ and string catenation operator would be ⋈. :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/attachments/20130713/00fbef8b/attachment.html>