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Author tim.peters
Recipients christian.heimes, gvanrossum, nascheme, noam, rhettinger, tim.peters
Date 2007-12-11.17:57:48
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[Raymond]
> ...
> NaNs in particular are a really
> difficult case because our equality testing routines
> have a fast path where identity implies equality.

Works as intended in 2.5; this is Windows output:

1.#INF
>>> nan = inf - inf
>>> nan  # really is a NaN
-1.#IND
>>> nan is nan  # of course this is true
True
>>> nan == nan  # but not equal anyway
False
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