Mark Dickinson added the comment: This has been discussed in multiple issues before this one. Currently, `complex` from a string provides one of two ways to get a complex number with the correct signs for the real and imaginary parts; I'd hate to change that to give wrong results instead.
The other important property here is that `complex(repr(z))` recovers `z` for a complex number `z`. That would break with your suggested change. Strong -1 from me. ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27363> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
