On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:06:03 +0200, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In [14]: a is b > Out[14]: True > In [15]: a == b > Out[15]: False > In [16]: a > Out[16]: nan > On my platform the division results in "Not A Number". Two NaNs > compared are always `False`. You could argue that this is the very > same NaN but to get this effect the interpreter has to take care that > every NaN produced while a program is running is unique. Quite huge > overhead for such a corner case IMHO. The interpreter isn't doing anything special; nans have [the equivalent of] an __eq__ method that always returns False. Regards, Dan -- Dan Sommers <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> "I wish people would die in alphabetical order." -- My wife, the genealogist -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
