Steven D'Aprano wrote:
When you're dealing with numbers that represent real quantities, getting a complex result is nearly always an error condition. Better to get an exception at the point that occurs, than somewhere distant when the number gets fed to %f formatting, or worse, no error at all, just a silently generating garbage results.
Yeah. I don't think Inland Revenue would be very impressed if I tried to tell them I had imaginary tax-to-pay, advantageous though it might be for me. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
