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

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 04:40:02 CEST 2012


On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

Python 2 (future directives aside) also required you to explicitly ask for floating point. That was also changed in Python 3.

Er, should have said that I was referring to division here... incomplete information. Anyway. Py3 says that int/int --> float is acceptable, so float**float --> complex is equally plausible.

ChrisA



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