On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I would not assume that. The origin is a point, just like any other. >> With a Line class, you could deem a zero-length line to be like a >> zero-element list, but Point(0,0) is more like the tuple (0,0) which >> is definitely True. > > It's more like the number 0 than the tuple (0,0). > > 0 is the origin on a 1-dimensional number line. > (0,0) is the origin on a 2-dimensional number plane. > > In fact, it might be pointed out that Point(0, 0) is a generalization > of 0+0j, which is equal to 0.
Ah, good point. In any case, though, it'd be an utterly inconsequential bug. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
