Python Infinity - Any caveats?

Question

So Python has positive and negative infinity:

float(\"inf\"), float(\"-inf\")

This just seems like the type of feature that has to have som

Answer 1

So does C99.

The IEEE 754 floating point representation used by all modern processors has several special bit patterns reserved for positive infinity (sign=0, exp=~0, frac=0), negative infinity (sign=1, exp=~0, frac=0), and many NaN (Not a Number: exp=~0, frac≠0).

All you need to worry about: some arithmetic may cause floating point exceptions/traps, but those aren't limited to only these "interesting" constants.