complex representation

2008-07-07 Thread DSM
From the nothing-is-so-trivial-it's-not-worth-a-usenet-post file: Shouldn't the default representation of complex numbers be like that of floats? That is, have a decimal point? 1 1 1.0 1.0 1j 1j 1.0j 1j 1.0+1.0j (1+1j) In the relevant bit of floatobject.c, there's a comment

Re: complex representation

2008-07-07 Thread Robert Kern
DSM wrote: From the nothing-is-so-trivial-it's-not-worth-a-usenet-post file: Shouldn't the default representation of complex numbers be like that of floats? That is, have a decimal point? 1 1 1.0 1.0 1j 1j 1.0j 1j 1.0+1.0j (1+1j) In the relevant bit of floatobject.c, there's

Re: complex representation

2008-07-07 Thread Terry Reedy
DSM wrote: ISTM the same reasoning applies equally to complex numbers. My interest arose because of what I think is a bug in pypy's complex printing: Python 2.4.1 (pypy 1.0.0 build 56124) on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. ``RPython: we use it so you