[Python-ideas] NAN handling in the statistics module

[David Mertz]

 This statement is certainly false:

>
> * If two items are equal, and pairwise inequality is deterministic,
> exchanging the items does not affect the sorting of other items in the list.
>

Just to demonstrate this obviousness:

>>> sorted([9, 9, 9, b, 1, 2, 3, a])
[1, 2, 3, A, B, 9, 9, 9]
>>> sorted([9, 9, 9, a, 1, 2, 3, b])
[B, 9, 9, 9, A, 1, 2, 3]
>>> a == b
True


The classes involved are:

class A:
    def __lt__(self, other):
        return False
    __gt__ = __lt__
    def __eq__(self, other):
        return True
    def __repr__(self):
        return self.__class__.__name__

class B(A):
    def __lt__(self, other):
        return True
    __gt__ = __lt__


I do not think these are useful, but __lt__ is deterministic here.

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