> I know at least that the float repr() was modified in Py3.1, but is the > above behaviour intentional? It certainly breaks doctests, and I don't see > a good reason for that.
I don't know whether it was intentional, but it looks right to me. 2j is the complex number +0.0+2.0j (right?). Then, -(2j) is the negated value of this, i.e. -0.0-2.0j (*). It seems that the complex type made no distinction between +0.0 and -0.0 in the past, but it should (just as the float type does). Regards, Martin (*) this is different from -2j, where the sign applies to the imaginary part only. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
