Re: can I get 0./0. to return nan instead of exception?

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Date	2014-06-19 13:50 +0200
Subject	Re: can I get 0./0. to return nan instead of exception?
From	Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Joel Goldstick
<joel.goldstick@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 19, 2014 7:05 AM, "Neal Becker" <ndbecker2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can I change behavior of py3 to return nan for 0./0. instead of raising an
>> exception?
>
> There is no nan in python.

Wrong:

>>> float('nan')
nan
>>>

also:

https://docs.python.org/2/library/math.html#math.isnan

> Check if the float x is a NaN (not a number). For more information on NaNs, see the IEEE 754 standards.

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