On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 8:00 PM Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org>
wrote:

> Which is EXACTLY the reason I say that if this is important enough to
> fix in median, it is important enough to fix in sorted. sorted gives
> exactly the same nonsense result, it is only a bit more obvious because
> it gives all the points. Is [3, nan, 1, 2, 4] a sorted list?
>

As me and Uncle Timmy have pointed out, it IS FIXED in sorted().  You just
need to call:

   sorted_stuff = sorted(stuff, key=nan_aware_transform)

Guido's time machine to the rescue... you've had this for more than a
decade now.

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