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Re: float("nan") in set or as key

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On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 00:41 +0100, MRAB wrote:
> Here's a curiosity. float("nan") can occur multiple times in a set or as 
> a key in a dict:
> 
>  >>> {float("nan"), float("nan")}
> {nan, nan}
> 
These two nans are not equal (they are two different nans)

> except that sometimes it can't:
> 
>  >>> nan = float("nan")
>  >>> {nan, nan}
> {nan}

This is the same nan, so it is equal to itself.

Two "nan"s are not equal in the manner that 1.0 and 1.0 are equal:

>>> 1.0 == 1.0
True
>>> float("nan") == float("nan")
False


I can't cite this in a spec, but it makes sense (to me) that two things
which are nan are not necessarily the same nan.

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Re: float("nan") in set or as key Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> - 2011-05-28 20:28 -0400
  Re: float("nan") in set or as key Erik Max Francis <max@alcyone.com> - 2011-05-28 17:44 -0700
  Re: float("nan") in set or as key Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-29 02:25 +0000
    Re: float("nan") in set or as key Wolfgang Rohdewald <wolfgang@rohdewald.de> - 2011-05-29 10:27 +0200
      Re: float("nan") in set or as key Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-29 14:41 +0000
        Re: float("nan") in set or as key MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-05-29 18:44 +0100
          Re: float("nan") in set or as key Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-29 18:27 +0000
        Re: float("nan") in set or as key Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-30 03:50 +1000
        Re: float("nan") in set or as key Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> - 2011-05-29 20:05 +0200
          Re: float("nan") in set or as key Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-29 18:46 +0000
        Re: float("nan") in set or as key Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-05-29 20:36 -0700

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