On 10/10/2013 16:51, Neil Cerutti wrote:
[...]Mixed arithmetic always promotes to the wider type (except in the case of complex numbers (Ha!)). r == c is equivalent to r == abs(c), which returns the magintude of the complex number.
What? >>> -1 == -1 + 0j True >>> -1 == abs(-1 + 0j) False >>> 1 == 0 + 1j False >>> 1 == abs(0 + 1j) True -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list