On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <514e5f1f$0$30001$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> Those who don't do serious floating point work hate NANs > > This kind of thing doesn't just come up in floating point work. SQL > folks have much the same issue with NULL.
Oh, NULL is easy to deal with. It's the magic value that isn't a value, except when it's a value, because it's the only value that you can use when you need a value that's not a value. Of course, sometimes it breaks that rule. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
