[Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org>]
> IEEE total_order puts NaN as bigger than infinity, and -NaN as less than
> -inf.
>
> One simple way to implement it is to convert the representaton to a 64
> bit signed integer (not its value, but its representation) and if the
> sign bit is set, complement the bottom 63 bits (because floats are
> signed-magnitude). For pure python code, I don't know how hard it is to
> get the representation of a float as a 64 bit integer. In C or Assembly
> it is fairly easy as you can easily get around the type system, but I
> don't know python well enough to do it.
There's a Python implementation here:
https://bugs.python.org/msg336487
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