From ed8cf7a543b3ebe2d61c16d0f87e60029fd2c478 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ezio Melotti Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 17:46:55 -0600 Subject: #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module. --- Lib/json/encoder.py | 3 +-- Misc/NEWS | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Lib/json/encoder.py b/Lib/json/encoder.py index 906c462..b0d745b 100644 --- a/Lib/json/encoder.py +++ b/Lib/json/encoder.py @@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ for i in range(0x20): ESCAPE_DCT.setdefault(chr(i), '\\u{0:04x}'.format(i)) #ESCAPE_DCT.setdefault(chr(i), '\\u%04x' % (i,)) -# Assume this produces an infinity on all machines (probably not guaranteed) -INFINITY = float('1e66666') +INFINITY = float('inf') FLOAT_REPR = repr def encode_basestring(s): diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index d9faea5..de0ec5d 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module. + - Issue #14572: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of sqlite3, such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4. @@ -119,7 +121,7 @@ Library - Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites which send EOF without trailing \r\n. - + - Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading module's active list after a fork(). -- cgit v0.12