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On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Gerald Britton
<gerald.britton@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 =F0 in a float anyway, I
wouldn't be too bothered. And what else? float('=F4') for twice that
value? Not really necessary imho.

ChrisA