[Python-Dev] infinities (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Sun Nov 26 18:13:16 CET 2006

tomer filiba wrote:

no, it requires infinity to accomplish x - y == x; y != 0, for example:

while limit > 0: limit -= len(chunk) with limit = posinf, the above code should be equivalent to "while True".

that's a remarkably stupid way to count bytes. if you want to argue for additions to the language, you could at least bother to come up with a sane use case.

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