On 10/19/2012 04:13 PM, Nick Coghlan 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.
indeed, you are right. So I suppose that in pypy we could just relax the check in cmath and be happy. Is there any chance that this will be changed in 2.7 and/or 3.x? ciao, Anto _______________________________________________ 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
