#5400: conversion error
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   Reporter:  jason                 |       Owner:  robertwb  
       Type:  defect                |      Status:  new       
   Priority:  major                 |   Milestone:  sage-4.3.1
  Component:  misc                  |    Keywords:            
Work_issues:  Close/mark as fixed?  |      Author:            
   Upstream:  N/A                   |    Reviewer:            
     Merged:                        |  
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Comment(by robertwb):

 I hate the fact that

 {{{
 sage: RR(CC(-1))
 -1.00000000000000
 }}}

 but

 {{{
 sage: RDF(CDF(-1))
 ------------------------------------------------------------
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module>
   File "parent.pyx", line 538, in sage.structure.parent.Parent.__call__
 (sage/structure/parent.c:5007)
   File "coerce_maps.pyx", line 82, in
 sage.structure.coerce_maps.DefaultConvertMap_unique._call_
 (sage/structure/coerce_maps.c:3109)
   File "coerce_maps.pyx", line 77, in sage.structure.coerce_maps._call_
 (sage/structure/coerce_maps.c:3000)
   File "real_double.pyx", line 540, in
 sage.rings.real_double.RealDoubleElement.__init__
 (sage/rings/real_double.c:5553)
   File "complex_double.pyx", line 808, in
 sage.rings.complex_double.ComplexDoubleElement.__float__
 (sage/rings/complex_double.c:6628)
 TypeError: can't convert complex to float; use abs(z)
 }}}

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