[Python-Dev] return type of complex (original) (raw)

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 18:23:06 CEST 2012

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

2012/10/19 Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com>:

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On 10/19/2012 11:26 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: 2012/10/19 Antonio Cuni <anto.cuni at gmail.com>: 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?

Certainly 3.x, but not 2.7. Why not 2.7? It is a perfectly-backward-compatible change: no currenly-working code could possibly break if cmath's restriction was relaxed. It's a new feature. Also, it's possible that someone is relying on it throwing for non-complex values.

Nick just said it's a bug that cmath type checks are too strict.

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