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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Support casting inf --\u003e System.Double.PositiveInfinity","articleBody":"Unless I'm mistaken there's no way to pass an infinity through to C# from Python?\n\n``` csharp\nnamespace Demo {\n    public static class TestDoubleCast {\n        public static double PassThru(double arg) {\n            return arg;\n        }\n    }\n}\n```\n\n``` python\nIn [3]: from Demo import TestDoubleCast\n\nIn [4]: TestDoubleCast.PassThru(1)\nOut[4]: 1.0\n\nIn [5]: TestDoubleCast.PassThru(3.14159)\nOut[5]: 3.14159\n\nIn [6]: TestDoubleCast.PassThru(inf)\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n\n  File \"\u003cipython-input-6-b27dffdb9fe9\u003e\", line 1, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n    TestDoubleCast.PassThru(inf)\n\nTypeError: No method matches given arguments\n\n\nIn [7]: TestDoubleCast.PassThru(System.Double.PositiveInfinity)\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n\n  File \"\u003cipython-input-9-9828c102a734\u003e\", line 1, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n    TestDoubleCast.PassThru(System.Double.PositiveInfinity)\n\nTypeError: No method matches given argument\n\n\nIn [10]: System.Double(3.14159)  # works as expected\nOut[10]: \u003cSystem.Double at 0xaf31828\u003e\n\nIn [11]: System.Double(inf)  # would like it to return a System.Double\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n\n  File \"\u003cipython-input-11-1a15035c8521\u003e\", line 1, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n    System.Double(inf)\n\nOverflowError: value too large to convert\n```\n\nIt would be _very_ useful if the casting machinery could special case infinities so that you could create them from Python and they could be passed as arguments to methods expecting a `System.Double`\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/dhirschfeld","@type":"Person","name":"dhirschfeld"},"datePublished":"2015-09-09T02:38:01.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/100/pythonnet/issues/100"}