[Python-Dev] return type of complex (original) (raw)
Devin Jeanpierre jeanpierreda at gmail.com
Sat Oct 20 07:09:06 CEST 2012
- Previous message: [Python-Dev] return type of __complex__
- Next message: [Python-Dev] return type of __complex__
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Antonio Cuni <anto.cuni at gmail.com> wrote:
Is that the real intended behavior? Given the way complex numbers interact with floats generally, returning a complex number with no imaginary component as a floating point value seems legitimate and the checks in cmath overly strict. Otherwise you would get redundancy like: def complex(self): return complex(value) or def complex(self): return value + 0j
No you wouldn't:
def __float__(self):
return value-- Devin
- Previous message: [Python-Dev] return type of __complex__
- Next message: [Python-Dev] return type of __complex__
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]