Sorting NaNs
Peter J. Holzer
hjp-python at hjp.at
Sat Jun 2 11:28:28 EDT 2018
On 2018-06-02 10:40:48 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 09:32:05 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> > Also nope. It looks like NaNs just mess up sorting in an unpredictable
> > way. Is this the intended behaviour or just an accident of
> > implementation? (I think it's the latter: I can see how a sort algorithm
> > which doesn't treat NaN specially would produce such results.)
>
>
> Neither -- it is a deliberate decision
If it was a deliberate decicion I would say it was intentional.
hp
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