I have a minor concern about certain corner cases with math.hypot and
complex.__abs__, namely when one component is infinite and one is not a number.
If we execute the following code:
import math
inf = float('inf')
nan = float('nan')
print math.hypot(inf, nan)
print abs(complex(nan, inf))
... then we see that 'inf' is printed in both cases. The standard library tests
(for example, test_cmath.py:test_abs()) seem to test for this behavior as well,
and FWIW, I personally agree with this convention. However, the math module's
documentation for both 2.6 and 3.1 states, "All functions return a quiet NaN if
at least one of the args is NaN."
math.pow(1.0, nan) is another such exception to the rule. Perhaps the
documentation should be updated to reflect this.
Thanks,
- David
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