On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Antonio Cuni <anto.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is that the real intended behavior? > > Given the way complex numbers interact with floats generally, > returning a complex number with no imaginary component as a floating > point value seems legitimate and the checks in cmath overly strict. > Otherwise you would get redundancy like: > > def __complex__(self): > return complex(value) > > or > > def __complex__(self): > return value + 0j > > More importantly, relaxing the checks in cmath is backwards > compatible. while tightening up the checks in complex_new is not. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/fijall%40gmail.com
Cool, can we get it for 2.7? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
