On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 11:01:33AM +0300, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > 05.09.20 06:52, Christopher Barker пише: > > I am a -0 on this, but I think it was Greg Ewing that presented a real > > use case: > > > > There is no way to use literal_eval that gets you an inf (or NaN value). > > ast.literal_eval('1e1000')
I don't think that's a language guarantee though. It should work in Python interpreters that have IEEE-754 floats (the majority of platforms), but I wouldn't expect it to work everywhere. Does it work in MicroPython on small systems? -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/TPFOTT7UYU6A7LN2TCISD7CJY5TRWPAR/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/