[Python-Dev] Rich comparisons (original) (raw)

Neil Schemenauer nas-python at python.ca
Fri Mar 19 11:52:48 EST 2004

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:01:31PM +0000, Michael Hudson wrote:

>>> float('nan') nan >>> == False

Would it help if each NaN instance was a separate object? The above code would still return True but code like:

compute_something() == compute_something_else('nan')

would always return False if they both returned NaN as a result of math operations.

Neil

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