Ok, thanks! It's submitted as issue 7947. - David
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Dickinson [mailto:dicki...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:15 PM To: David DiCato Cc: python-dev@python.org Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] math.hypot, complex.__abs__, and documentation On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:19 PM, David DiCato <ddic...@microsoft.com> wrote: > 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. <examples snipped> > 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.” Yes; this is a doc bug. Please could you open an issue on http://bugs.python.org ? > math.pow(1.0, nan) is another such exception to the rule. Perhaps the > documentation should be updated to reflect this. Yes, it should. Thanks! Mark _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
