On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Gerald Britton
<gerald.brit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Man I don't know how you are doing this! I just tried:
>
> float('<greek letter pi>') and got
>
> Value error: could not convert string to float '<greek letter pi>'
>
> For that matter, I can't figure out how to type the greek letter for
> pi in gmail! Guess I have some things to learn.
>
> So, if Python doesn't recognize the symbol for pi, why should it
> recognize the one for infinity?
Considering that Python can't represent π in a float anyway, I
wouldn't be too bothered. And what else? float('τ') for twice that
value? Not really necessary imho.
ChrisA
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