Maximum and Minimum values for ints

Question

I am looking for minimum and maximum values for integers in python. For eg., in Java, we have Integer.MIN_VALUE and Integer.MAX_VALUE. Is there som

Answer 1

If you just need a number that's bigger than all others, you can use

float('inf')

in similar fashion, a number smaller than all others:

float('-inf')

This works in both python 2 and 3.