From: Mark Dickinson Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:08:58 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Change description of float('nan') feature; NaNs don't care much about X-Git-Tag: v2.6b2~180 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c72b7879928156fe260e8d1511b047d0ec244f03;p=python Change description of float('nan') feature; NaNs don't care much about signs, and float('nan'), float('+nan') and float('-nan') actually all generate the exact same NaN value. --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index 6f1f157699..3e6190cb03 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -1374,8 +1374,8 @@ Here are all of the changes that Python 2.6 makes to the core Python language. of the zero. (Fixed by Mark T. Dickinson; :issue:`1507`) * More floating-point features were also added. The :func:`float` function - will now turn the strings ``+nan`` and ``-nan`` into the corresponding - IEEE 754 Not A Number values, and ``+inf`` and ``-inf`` into + will now turn the string ``nan`` into an + IEEE 754 Not A Number value, and ``+inf`` and ``-inf`` into positive or negative infinity. This works on any platform with IEEE 754 semantics. (Contributed by Christian Heimes; :issue:`1635`.)