On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> Now, all this bothers me. Not that I had to do some work to get stuff >> to work in an imperfect world. No, what bothers me is that this >> behaviour was explicitly and deliberately put in for no good reason. > > Oh, you've read the IEEE-754 standard, and that's what it says? "We're > going to specify this behaviour for NANs just to annoy people" perhaps?
You're confusing IEEE with Adobe. IEEE is pronounced "Aiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!", but it's Adobe that makes people scream that. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/30/xee_photoshop_psd_code_rant/ ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list