[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Michael Hudson]

Jeff Epler <jepler at unpythonic.net> writes:

> [I apologize that I'm not adding this information to the bug report, but
> I'm not able to log into SF right now, the login page hangs while loading]
>
>> 1==float('nan')  (2004-02-17)
>>        http://python.org/sf/899109  opened by  Arman Bostani 
>
> I'm sure Tim can explain this better, but what happens is this: 1 is
> coerced to float for comparison.  Then, the following C expression is
> evaluated (Objects/floatobject.c:float_compare):
>         return (i < j) ? -1 : (i > j) ? 1 : 0;

Would it make (more) sense to implement rich comparisons for floats?

I'm not enthusiastic about the patch that got pasted into the bug
report.

Cheers,
mwh

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