Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Conceptually, it's a bug. The numeric tower treats non-complex numbers as special cases of complex where the imaginary component is zero (that's why the non-complex types all support real/imag), and since complex numbers are not allowed to compare to themselves, they shouldn't compare to anything else either.
There's a contradiction in there somewhere. If you believe that a non-complex is equivalent to a complex with zero imaginary part, then you *should* be able to compare two complexes provided that their imaginary parts are both zero. (I don't think that should be the case, BTW -- complex numbers live on a two-dimensional plane, and from a geometrical point of view there's no reason to single out the x-axis and give it special treatment.) -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
