On Feb 24, 7:55 am, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Do you want to test for something that is larger than infinity?
Not exactly. I want to set a constant that has a value of infinity and then do comparisons against the constant. ################## # Hypothetical 1 # ################## def confine(string, maxlength=INFINITY): return string[:maxlength] py> confine('123') '123' py> confine('123', 1) '1' ################## # Hypothetical 2 # ################## def confine(string, maxlength=INFINITY): if len(string) < maxlength: do_something() else: twiddle_thumbs() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list