On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 5:21 PM Cade Brown <brown.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...] we could spent all day going over particular cases which the repr ->
> eval identity doesn't hold. However I still think that, as a principle,
> it's a solid one. I think changing the repr of 'inf' to 'float('inf')' is a
> decent solution (but keeping str conversion the same).
>
> So, I guess in order to reduce backwards incompatibility, the repr could
> be modified to return a string which actually generates an infinite value
>
I would assume that there's a lot of code, much of it not written in
Python, that has been written to specifically look for this "inf" string.
So I don't think we should change it. And making the repr() of floats
different from their str() just in this one special case sounds like a bad
idea too.
I don't think we could fix this one without making 'inf' a builtin
constant, and I don't like that option at all. I also don't think this is
quite as big a deal as it seems to have become in your head. So please put
it to rest. There are many other worthy causes.
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