[Python-Dev] Mixing float and Decimal -- thread reboot

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Alexander Belopolsky
<alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder why Python did not follow Java model where Float NaN objects
> unlike raw float NaNs compare equal to themselves.    One reason may
> be that Python does not have raw floats, but if someone needs IEEE 754
> NaNs, one can use numpy scalars or add arithmetics to ctypes numerical
> types.

Probably because we were blindly following the IEEE standard without
understanding it in every detail.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)