[Python-Dev] trunc() (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun Jan 27 03:13:28 CET 2008


"Jeffrey Yasskin" <jyasskin at gmail.com> wrote in message news:5d44f72f0801261600l4ea2d006vd58fa5999ba73197 at mail.gmail.com... || To elaborate the point I was trying to make: If float() does not mean | "the float part of"

The 'float part' of a complex number is meaningless since both components of a complex are floats (in practice, or reals in theory). The same is true in polar representation.

| and should not take a complex argument (which I | completely agree with), then int() does not mean "the int part of" and | should not take a float argument.

The 'integer (int) part' of a float/rational/real is established thru decades of usage. Your consequent is false and in no way follows from your antecendent.

tjr



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