[issue10809] complex() comments wrongly say it supports NaN and inf

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Dickinson
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[issue10809] complex() comments wrongly say it supports NaN and inf

2011-01-02 Thread Andrew Dalke
Andrew Dalke added the comment: Well that's ... interesting. While I compiled 2.7 and was looking at the 2.7 code my tests were against 2.6. Python 2.7 (trunk:74969:87651M, Jan 2 2011, 21:58:12) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license"

[issue10809] complex() comments wrongly say it supports NaN and inf

2011-01-02 Thread Andrew Dalke
New submission from Andrew Dalke : complex("nan") raises "ValueError: complex() arg is a malformed string" while complex(float("nan")) returns (nan+0j). This was reported in http://bugs.python.org/issue2121 with the conclusion "wont fix". complex("inf") has the same behaviors. The implementa