On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > >> Why *should* all NaNs be equal to each other? > > I appreciate why you can't say NaN is equal to NaN. However, shouldn't > the very comparison attempt trigger an arithmetic exception? After all, > so does a division by zero.
I'd say it would surprise people rather a lot if operations like dict insertion/lookup could trigger arithmetic exceptions. :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
