Add test to ensure NaN and inf are roundtripped in JSON

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Add test to ensure NaN and inf are roundtripped in JSON #411

Closed itamarst closed 5 years ago

itamarst commented 5 years ago

For scientific computing preserving NaN and friends is useful. Currently Python's JSON library already does this, but switching libraries (#372) could impact that:

>>> json.loads(json.dumps(float("nan")))
nan