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Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct?

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On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:11 AM,  <sohcahtoa82@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would argue that if `a is b` then it is obvious that `a == b`

This is not true for float("nan"), though. The question is, is your
above statement a valid optimization for the 'in' operator, or not?
And no, it isn't, because it's not perfectly safe. However, there are
other invariants that mean that 'in' has to allow object identity to
count; for instance:

for elem in collection:
    assert elem in collection

should never assert-fail.

ChrisA

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Is nan in (nan,) correct? random832@fastmail.us - 2015-03-05 17:26 -0500
  Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-03-05 15:11 -0800
    Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-03-06 10:20 +1100
      Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-03-05 15:27 -0800
        Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-03-06 10:39 +1100
        Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-06 10:40 +1100
    Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-06 10:25 +1100
  Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-06 13:09 +1100
    Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-03-06 13:55 +1100
    Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2015-03-05 19:18 -0800
    Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-03-06 14:26 +1100
    Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2015-03-05 19:44 -0800
    Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-06 14:49 +1100
    Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? random832@fastmail.us - 2015-03-05 23:37 -0500
      Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-07 04:07 +1100
    Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-03-06 04:46 +0000
  Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-03-06 01:50 -0800
    Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-06 21:01 +1100
      Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-03-06 02:22 -0800
        Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-07 03:59 +1100
          Re: Is nan in (nan,) correct? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-03-06 10:04 -0800
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