On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote: .. > In that bug, Nick, you mention that reflexive equality is something that > container classes rely on in their implementation. Such reliance seems to > me to be a bug, or an inappropriate optimization, ..
An alternative interpretation would be that it is a bug to use NaN values in lists. It is certainly nonsensical to use NaNs as keys in dictionaries and that reportedly led Java designers to forgo the nonreflexivity of nans: """ A "NaN" value is not equal to itself. However, a "NaN" Java "Float" object is equal to itself. The semantic is defined this way, because otherwise "NaN" Java "Float" objects cannot be retrieved from a hash table. """ - http://www.concentric.net/~ttwang/tech/javafloat.htm With the status quo in Python, it may only make sense to store NaNs in array.array, but not in a list. _______________________________________________ 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
