Steven D'Aprano added the comment: On 05/08/12 03:45, Mark Dickinson wrote:
> It would make sense to add float.is_infinite and (possibly) float.is_finite > methods at the same time. If you don't add is_finite, you know someone is going to express surprise that it wasn't already done. Just as happened with math.isfinite :) http://bugs.python.org/issue9165#msg109326 > The second has to do with finding a nice > type-agnostic way of determing whether something is a NaN---anyone mind if > I open a separate issue for this? Please do. > Two questions: (1) What would you think about raising ValueError > explicitly for the signaling NaN case [...] (2) Should we apply > the fix to 2.7 and/or 3.2 as well? Agree to both. I think this counts as a bug report and not a new feature. > I'll look at extending Steven's fix to the cdecimal code Thank you :) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15544> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
