For consistency with Python's behavior for float(complex(1,0)) for better or worse...
- William (Sent from my iPhone.) On Jan 28, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Since the imaginary part is (indistinguishable from) 0, Is there any > reason this succeeds: > > sage: RR(CDF(1)) > 1.00000000000000 > sage: RR(CC(1)) > 1.00000000000000 > > but this fails? > > sage: float(CC(1)) > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module> > File "complex_number.pyx", line 397, in > sage.rings.complex_number.ComplexNumber.__float__ > <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: can't convert complex to float; use abs > (z) > > sage: float(CDF(1)) > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module> > File "complex_double.pyx", line 529, in > sage.rings.complex_double.ComplexDoubleElement.__float__ > <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: can't convert complex to float; use abs > (z) > > - Robert > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
