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From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Encoding NaN in JSON
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:47:27 +0000 (UTC)
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In <c37a3b9c-6fe8-48aa-b703-9b4f922c3969@googlegroups.com> Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> writes:

> >> I'm trying to find a way to have json emit float('NaN') as 'N/A'.
> > No.  There is no way to represent NaN in JSON.  It's simply not part of the
> > specification.
> I know that. I'm trying to emit the *string* 'N/A' for every NaN.

import math

x = possibly_NaN()

if math.isnan(x):
    x = 'N/A'

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