On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 11:06 PM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I'm not wedded to the idea that the default ought to be the current > behaviour. If there is a strong argument for one of the others, I'm > listening.
"Errors should never pass silently"? Silently returning nonsensical results is hard to defend as a default behavior IMO :-) > How would you answer those who say that the right behaviour is not to > propogate unwanted NANs, but to fail fast and raise an exception? Both seem defensible a priori, but every other mathematical operation in Python propagates NaNs instead of raising an exception. Is there something unusual about median that would justify giving it unusual behavior? -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
