Why doesn't Python have a sign function?

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00:00 Question
02:36 Accepted answer (Score 312)
04:45 Answer 2 (Score 73)
09:27 Answer 3 (Score 59)
09:45 Answer 4 (Score 45)
10:28 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1986...

Question links:
[math]: http://docs.python.org/library/math.html...

Accepted answer links:
[patch]: http://bugs.python.org/msg58786
[math]: http://docs.python.org/library/math.html...
[what it should return in all the edge cases]: http://bugs.python.org/msg59137
[used to delegate to the end user the desired behavior for edge cases]: http://bugs.python.org/msg59154
[sometimes might require the call to ]: http://bugs.python.org/msg59152

Answer 4 links:
[removed]: https://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0...

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