[Python-ideas] Why no sign function?

[Nick Coghlan]

Mark Dickinson wrote:
> Would this be of value to anyone?  I'd only vote +0, since I don't
> feel a great need for this function.

I'm in a similar position. I was merely commenting that *if* we did
anything, a C99 inspired math.signbit would probably be the thing to add.

(I don't see the value of the 3 way comparison, since that doesn't
suffer any signed zero oddities, and hence, NaN values aside, can be
handled with the ordinary comparison operators).

Cheers,
Nick.

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