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| author | Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> | 2004-02-19 19:35:22 (GMT) |
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| committer | Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> | 2004-02-19 19:35:22 (GMT) |
| commit | d3b33b5f6f6f1b09c1ec7832329c8307edcb82cf (patch) | |
| tree | 4c5d78f77d1f89ed0441f526a52c749169665cf5 /Misc/NEWS | |
| parent | bbca8da3ca5191d68c4cd8777b8ba8632c0cff44 (diff) | |
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"Fix" (for certain configurations of the planets, including
recent gcc on Linux/x86)
[ 899109 ] 1==float('nan')
by implementing rich comparisons for floats.
Seems to make comparisons involving NaNs somewhat less surprising
when the underlying C compiler actually implements C99 semantics.
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.4 alpha 1? Core and builtins ----------------- +- Implemented rich comparisons for floats, which seems to make + comparisons involving NaNs somewhat less surprising when the + underlying C compiler actually implements C99 semantics. + - Optimized list.extend() to save memory and no longer create intermediate sequences. Also, extend() now pre-allocates the needed memory whenever the length of the iterable is known in |