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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 17:34:48 -0600
Subject: Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes
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On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Anders J. Munch <2014@jmunch.dk> wrote:
> Joel Goldstick wrote:
>>
>> I've been following along here, and it seems you haven't received the
>> answer you want or need.
>
>
> So far I received exactly the answer I was expecting.  0 examples of
> NaN!=NaN being beneficial.
> I wasn't asking for help, I was making a point.  Whether that will lead to
> improvement of Python, well, I'm not too optimistic, but I feel the point
> was worth making regardless.

If the reason there were 0 examples is because the group that you
posed the question to is lacking the kind of experience needed to be
able to provide them (speaking for myself, I wouldn't know because I
don't ever do anything with NaN beyond checking for it as an error
condition), then the point hasn't really been made, has it?