Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> Is "-2.0" a literal? >> >> What's the outcome of >> >> -2.0.__str__() > > If you mean (-2.0).__str__(), then it returns '-2.0', but that proves > nothing.
The point is, you don't need to "philosophize" about complex literals when even negative numbers don't have literals in Python. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list