[Python-Dev] cmp(x,x) (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Wed May 19 09:44:08 EDT 2004

Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer at conectiva.com> writes:

> This is expected in an IEEE754 compliant implementation.

What's one of them? I can tell you.. or I'd have to kill you. ;-) > Something we currently are not (I get different results, as shown). Are you using 2.3 or 2.4 here? 2.3.. I wasn't aware about your recent change. Are you planning to include C99 stuff as well?

No. My recent change was mainly motivated by the wart that in Python 2.3 on linux float('nan') == x came out True for any float x at all!

I'm not enough of a numerics guy to know what people who would like real 754 support would actually want.

Cheers, mwh

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