On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 08:32:52PM -0800, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas wrote:
> The 95% case is handled by just ignore and raise. Novices should > probably never be using anything else. > > Experts will definitely often want poison. And probably sometimes fast > for backward compatibility and/or performance. That gets you to 98%. > > Experts will rarely but not never want total order. Can you explain the scenario where somebody using median will want negative NANs to sort to the beginning, below -INF, and positive NANs to sort to the end, above +INF? I have no doubt that total order for floats is useful. I just want to know when it would be useful for users of median. > And experts might also want something different from IEEE total order, > like uniformly pushing all NaNs to the end. Likewise. I'm sure there are many uses of sorting NANs to one end, but when will it be useful for median? -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/RX6FH22RHDSCK7Z5XWHKBKNXCG5Q456B/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
