Greg Ewing wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
>
>   
>> The proposal to allow when im part is exactly zero is a horrible kluge.
>>     
>
> Not to mention that "exactly zero" is often an ill-defined
> concept in numerical algorithms. You have no way of knowing
> whether it really is zero or just something small that
> happened to get rounded down to zero.
>   

Well, as it turns out when I looked at this in more detail, f2py in fact 
happily discards *any* imaginary part, not just 0. So we may probably as 
well make a departure from f2py behaviour anyway. (And I've come to 
agree with all of you.)

Dag Sverre

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