Does Python have "not a number" floating point values?

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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:10:36 -0700, Russell E. Owen
<owen at astroNOJNK.washington.edu.invalid> wrote:
>Does Python support any sort of floating point "not a number" (e.g. IEEE
>infinity)?

This seems to work and is used in MatPy (taken from several replies I got here):

Inf = inf = 1e300**2
NaN = nan = inf - inf

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