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| References | <53BC05FB.4050707@jmunch.dk> |
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| Date | 2014-07-08 12:23 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes |
| From | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.11644.1404840246.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Anders J. Munch <2014@jmunch.dk> wrote: > Most people don't need to deal with NaN's in Python at all, > fortunately. They just don't appear in normal computation, because the > interpreter raises an exception instead. In addition to what others have written, I will add one thing. There are certainly situations where raising an exception is bad. Consider all the people in the scientific computing community doing fancy linear algebra sorts of things, often with missing data. They generally want NaN propagated and not have some long running calculation crash in the middle. Skip
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Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-07-08 12:23 -0500
Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-07-08 20:36 +0300
Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-07-08 12:49 -0500
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