[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary
Michael Hudson
mwh at python.net
Thu Feb 19 05:54:37 EST 2004
Jeff Epler <jepler at unpythonic.net> writes:
> [I apologize that I'm not adding this information to the bug report, but
> I'm not able to log into SF right now, the login page hangs while loading]
>
>> 1==float('nan') (2004-02-17)
>> http://python.org/sf/899109 opened by Arman Bostani
>
> I'm sure Tim can explain this better, but what happens is this: 1 is
> coerced to float for comparison. Then, the following C expression is
> evaluated (Objects/floatobject.c:float_compare):
> return (i < j) ? -1 : (i > j) ? 1 : 0;
Would it make (more) sense to implement rich comparisons for floats?
I'm not enthusiastic about the patch that got pasted into the bug
report.
Cheers,
mwh
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