[Python-ideas] Suggestion: Extend integers to include iNaN

[Steve Barnes]

On 29/09/2018 07:52, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 11:31 PM, Steve Barnes <gadgetsteve at live.co.uk> wrote:
>> One specific use case that springs to mind would be for Libraries such
>> as Pandas to return iNaN for entries that are not numbers in a column
>> that it has been told to treat as integers.
> 
> Pandas doesn't use Python objects to store integers, though; it uses
> an array of unboxed machine integers.
> 
> In places where you can use Python objects to represent numbers, can't
> you just use float("nan") instead of iNaN?
> 
> -n
> 

It is a shame about Pandas not using integers, (speed considerations I 
would guess). Using float("nan") would possibly be incompatible with 
operations down the chain which might be expecting an integer or 
handling a float differently.

-- 
Steve (Gadget) Barnes
Any opinions in this message are my personal opinions and do not reflect 
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