Mark Dickinson, 24.10.2009 16:44: > On Oct 24, 3:26 pm, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> in Python 3.1.1, I get this: >> >> Python 3.1.1 (r311:74480, Oct 22 2009, 19:34:26) >> [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >> >>> -(2j) >> (-0-2j) >> >> The last line differs from what earlier Python versions printed here. >> 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. > > Yes, it's intentional. The problem with the 2.6 complex repr is that > it doesn't accurately represent negative zeros, so that if you try > to eval the result you don't end up with the same complex number
Ok, thanks. I guess we'll have to work around that in Cython's doctest suite then. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
