On 2010-03-27 13:36 , Adam Olsen wrote:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 17:16, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote:Of the ideas I've seen in this thread, only two look reasonable: * Do nothing. This is attractive because it doesn't break anything. * Have float.__eq__(x, y) return True whenever x and y are the same NaN object. This is attractive because it is a minimal change that provides a little protection for simple containers. I support either of those options.What's the flaw in using isnan()?
There are implicit comparisons being done inside list.__contains__() and other such methods. They do not, and should not, know about isnan().
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