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

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Sat Oct 20 11:41:24 CEST 2012


On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

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

I've opened bugs.python.org/issue16290 to track this.

-- Mark



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