The NaNny State
Rhodri James
rhodri at kynesim.co.uk
Tue Feb 19 06:20:52 EST 2019
On 18/02/2019 23:24, Avi Gross wrote:
> Ben asked:
>
>> Who says that the “correct spelling in python is all lower case "nan"”?
> Fair enough. Except for reserved words in the language, all we have is hints of what the designers used. The reality is that whoever codes the __str__ and/or __repr__ chose lower case and so did the persons who made math.nan and numpy.nan and obviously we can over-ride these decisions in our own derived customized classes.
[cut large amount of experimentation showing nothing much]
You still seem to be hung up on the concept of "correct spelling". In
this case, it really isn't helpful.
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