Re: [Python-Dev] New math functions

2008-02-20 Thread Isaac Morland
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Mark Dickinson wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Raymond Hettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, it would be useful to have a new method, float.is_integer(). This would be better than the current approach where we make the test: if x == floor(x). How common is

[Python-Dev] New math functions

2008-02-11 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Was some thought given to possibly adding these as float methods instead of as separate functions? float.isinf() float.isnan() Also, it would be useful to have a new method, float.is_integer(). This would be better than the current approach where we make the test: if x == floor(x).