On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> You can't get a valid result from data produced by an invalid
>> computation. Garbage in, garbage out.
>
> Of course you can. Here's a trivial example:
>
> def f(x):
> return 1
>
If your incoming x is garbage, your outgoing 1 is also garbage. Later
on, you can use 'isgarbage(x)' to find out whether anything went
wrong. You can also use 'isinsane(self)', which is defined as follows:
class Programmer:
def isinsane(self):
return True if float("nan")==float("nan") else True
Chris Angelico
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