The NaNny State

Rhodri James rhodri at kynesim.co.uk
Tue Feb 19 06:20:52 EST 2019


On 18/02/2019 23:24, Avi Gross wrote:
> Ben asked:
> 
>> Who says that the “correct spelling in python is all lower case "nan"”?
> Fair enough. Except for reserved words in the language, all we have is hints of what the designers used. The reality is that whoever codes the __str__ and/or __repr__ chose lower case and so did the persons who made math.nan and numpy.nan and obviously we can over-ride these decisions in our own derived customized classes.

[cut large amount of experimentation showing nothing much]

You still seem to be hung up on the concept of "correct spelling".  In 
this case, it really isn't helpful.

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd



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