All, For reference, my PEP repo: https://github.com/CadeBrown/peps
Guido, Thanks for helping out. And yes I'd be interested in writing a PEP. I'm forking the repository (as mentioned above in my message). Where should discussion specific to the PEP take place? Should we move to 1-on-1 email conversations, or should it be kept in the public mailing list? Thanks, ---- *Cade Brown* Research Assistant @ ICL (Innovative Computing Laboratory) Personal Email: brown.c...@gmail.com ICL/College Email: c...@utk.edu On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:48 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > If you and Cade want to co-author a PEP that adds `inf` and `nan` to the > builtins, I'll sponsor it, so you can have a fair hearing from the SC. I > won't argue in favor, but not against either.) > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 6:26 PM Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks Jon and Chris. But I'm not looking to make a literal_eval or >> custom reprs that support inf and nan -- I may need that some day, so >> thanks for the tips, but the idea here is to do that little bit more to >> make Python better support the float special values out of the box. >> >> It seems that moving math,inf and math.nan to __builtins__, and adding >> them to a "whitelist" in literal_eval (and maybe another place or two?) >> would accomplish this. Small benefit, yes, but I have yet to hear anyone >> present a downside (other than the usual it's work that someone has to do). >> >> I took another look at PEP 754 (which was rejected due to disinterest, >> not because it was determined to be a bad idea), and note that the only >> part that wasn't implemented was the creation of "constants" in >> __builtins__ (and, indeed, the PEP is not clear on whether it was >> suggesting that they be in __builtins__ at all). The PEP also called for >> different names, and a constant for negative Infinity, which doesn't seem >> very useful when you can just use a negative sign. >> >> Anyway, I'm done now -- there hasn't been any interest from core devs, >> and I don't care enough to push this, but it would be nice. >> >> -CHB >> >> >> -- >> Christopher Barker, PhD >> >> Python Language Consulting >> - Teaching >> - Scientific Software Development >> - Desktop GUI and Web Development >> - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/4VK6ND3GURQHSXZWHKBX43WOKOOUFRP5/ >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* > <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/> >
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