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
wrote:
> Thanks Jon and Chris. But I'm not looking
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
Given that this is unlikely to see any change in core Python, perhaps you
can get a decent solution with a third party library? If your main issue is
that repr doesn't provide an "eval-able" string, then may I suggest using
the "most-used" function in the ubelt utility library: ubelt.repr2
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