Brandt Bucher <brandtbuc...@gmail.com> added the comment: Thanks for the feedback. I agree with you on the iffy delegation issue. However, this is problem that I feel deserves a fix... the behavior (silently producing garbage results) is just so un-pythonic. It’s been made clear in other issues that a warning isn’t right here, and sorting is guaranteed to use __lt__ (which NaN defines well for use in all other contexts). I honestly don’t see any other way. If that means fixing min, max, and friends too, I think it’s worth it.
Special cases justify special-casing, especially when doing so doesn’t break the rules. NaN isn’t like any other value of any other type; It’s practically defined by its ability to ruin valid comparison operations, even with fellow floats, for which ordering is otherwise well-defined. For what it’s worth, I don’t know if anybody who’s tried to sort sets. Every Python programmer I know has blindly sorted floats at some point. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue36095> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
