commit ed8cf7a543b3ebe2d61c16d0f87e60029fd2c478
author Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> Mon May 21 17:46:55 2012 -0600
committer Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> Mon May 21 17:46:55 2012 -0600
tree 0dabfff15936e7d3bce7e2683bd07a2c677c7fb1
parent 5f045ea4409ce58c6c886cb2922c88ae73ee9ce6

#14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.

Lib/json/encoder.py

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 @@
     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):