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
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