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

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:22:29 am Mark Dickinson wrote:
> The obvious way to do this nan interning for floats would be to put
> the interning code into PyFloat_FromDouble.  I'm not sure whether
> this would be worth the cost in terms of added code (and possibly
> reduced performance, since the nan check would be done every time a
> float was returned), but I'd be willing to review a patch.

I hope that it's obvious from my previous post that I do NOT want such 
interning done, but since I put the idea in people's heads, I wish to 
reiterate that I'm against the idea: -1 on interning NaNs. For the rare 
application where it might be useful, it is easy to do in the 
application code.



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Steven D'Aprano