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[Python-Dev] return type of __complex__

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Fri Oct 19 17:56:47 CEST 2012 
2012/10/19 Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com>:
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> On 10/19/2012 11:26 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>> 2012/10/19 Antonio Cuni <anto.cuni at gmail.com>:
>>> indeed, you are right. So I suppose that in pypy we could just relax
>>> the check in cmath and be happy. Is there any chance that this will
>>> be changed in 2.7 and/or 3.x?
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>> Certainly 3.x, but not 2.7.
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> Why not 2.7?  It is a perfectly-backward-compatible change:  no
> currenly-working code could possibly break if cmath's restriction was
> relaxed.


It's a new feature. Also, it's possible that someone is relying on it
throwing for non-complex values.


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Regards,
Benjamin
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