Sorting NaNs

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2018-06-02 10:40:48 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 09:32:05 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> > Also nope. It looks like NaNs just mess up sorting in an unpredictable
> > way. Is this the intended behaviour or just an accident of
> > implementation? (I think it's the latter: I can see how a sort algorithm
> > which doesn't treat NaN specially would produce such results.)
> 
> 
> Neither -- it is a deliberate decision

If it was a deliberate decicion I would say it was intentional.

        hp

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