On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:11:37AM -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> complex ('(2+2j)')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ValueError: complex() arg is a malformed string
>
> Whatever format is used for output should be accepted as input!
This isn't true in general; it's not true of strings, for example, nor
of files. Parsing complex numbers would be pretty complicated,
because it would have to accept '(2+2j)', '2+2j', '3e-6j', and perhaps
even '4j+3'. It seems easier to just use eval() than to make
complex() implement an entire mini-parser.
--amk
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