[Python-Dev] Not-a-Number

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Apr 30 01:50:47 CEST 2011

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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> If I do x = 0.0/0 I get an exception instead of a NAN.

But the exception you get is ZeroDivisionError, so I think
Python is catching this before you get to the stage of
producing a NaN.
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Greg

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