On 06/03/2015 04:37, random...@fastmail.us wrote:
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015, at 22:49, Chris Angelico wrote:
I'm not sure it's just an optimization. Compare this post from
python-dev, where Nick Coghlan discusses the same topic:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-July/135476.html
If it is a bug for NaN to "infect" containers' behavior, we need to take
a serious look at sort().
I entirely agree. With the extremely serious bug that was reported (and
fixed) just a few days ago in the Python sorting algorithm and/or code,
it is quite clear to me that it probably needs a major rethink. After
you :)
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