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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:53:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: Wayne Werner <wayne@waynewerner.com>
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On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Miki Tebeka wrote:

>>> 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.

Why not use `null` instead? It seems to be semantically more similar...

-W