On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Antonio Cuni <anto.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is that the real intended behavior? > > 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
No you wouldn't: def __float__(self): return value -- Devin _______________________________________________ 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