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All your comments are belong to reddit

« H E python :: linux :: open source :: email
posted 2007.06.18 Mon

I guess this has been around since the dawn of site aggregation (ala slashdot). I'm just sort of frustrated that my previous post's most valuable and relevant comments weren't posted on my blog but on an aggregator of programming links (reddit). I'm not implying that reddit isn't useful for finding interesting fodder every so often, it is just annoying that relevant comments to your post have a further degree of separation your post. So unless you have someone nice who actually bridges the comments to your post(like Fredrik) you might never see those useful posts.

[end rant...]

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1. Michael Hudson left...
2007.06.19 Tue 5:55 am

Well, as consolation, have a proper answer to your previous question:

def isnan(v):

  • return v != v*1.0 or (v == 1.0 and v == 2.0)

This has been tested with Python 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 on Windows, Linux and OS X and probably works on many. If you don't care about older Python versions

def isnan(v):

  • return v != v*1.0

is enough. The "*1.0" bit is so you don't compare the same objects (in the sense of 'is'), x!=x will always return False.