On 27.08.2021 03:24, David Mertz, Ph.D. wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 6:46 AM Marc-Andre Lemburg
Fair enough. Would it then make sense to at least have all possible NAN objects compare equal, treating the extra error information as an attribute value rather than a distinct value and perhaps exposing this as such ?
No, no, no!
Almost the entire point of a NaN is that it doesn't compare as equal to anything... Not even to itself!
Yeah, you're right, it would break the logic that NAN should "infect" most (or even all) other operations they are used in to signal "no idea what to do here". -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Experts (#1, Aug 27 2021)
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