Mark Dickinson added the comment: > I am pretty sure the 2.x anomaly is tied up with having short ints plus the > anomaly of having one more negative than positive int.
Yes, that was the rationale for folding in the minus operation. It had some odd side-effects, though: >>> -1j -1j >>> -(1j) (-0-1j) See issue 9011 for more discussion. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25335> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com