[issue11949] Make float('nan') unorderable

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> added the comment:

> On the issue itself, I'm -1 on making comparisons 
> with float('nan') raise: I don't see that there's
> a real problem here that needs solving.
>
> Note that the current behaviour does *not* violate IEEE 754, ...

I agree with Mark.  Am closing this feature request which is both ill-conceived and likely to cause more harm than good (possibly breaking code that currently does not fail).

> the discussion about cleaning up test_math 
> (which I agree would be a good thing to do) 
> should probably go into another issue.

I agree.

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resolution:  -> rejected
status: open -> closed

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