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

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 15:29:34 CEST 2012


On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

I probably not say that, but even so my personal taste would be to fix the docs to describe the current behavior in 2.7. Evidently somebody thought "float" was appropriate

The implementation of complex_new is complicated enough that it's not at all evident that anyone thought 'float' was appropriate; that it's accepted may have just been a side-effect of the implementation.

-- Mark



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