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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 18:44:15 +0200
From: "Anders J. Munch" <2014@jmunch.dk>
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alister wrote:
> I don't have time to start this discussion over again on another mailing
> list.
> Don't anyone on those lists read python-list also?
>
> they possibly do, but prefer to keep discussions to the proper forum

The semantics of the Python programming language is on-topic for python-list. 
This is about float.__eq__, not about numpy or SciPy.
Maybe they just don't like beer?

regards, Anders