New submission from Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com>: In the 'coercion rules' section of the reference manual, at:
http://docs.python.org/dev/reference/datamodel.html#id5 it says: """Over time, the type complex may be fixed to avoid coercion.""" In 3.x, the complex type has (necessarily) been fixed to avoid coercion, and it ought to be a fairly easy task to backport that fix to 2.7, for someone who wants to get his or her feet wet with some CPython hacking. As far as I can see, there's no great benefit in such a change, except that the presence of coercion for the complex type causes confusion occasionally: see issue 3734 for an example of this. ---------- components: Interpreter Core keywords: easy messages: 81612 nosy: marketdickinson priority: low severity: normal status: open title: Fix complex type to avoid coercion in 2.7. type: feature request versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5211> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
