"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.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3fdef4b..2d02ed1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
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