[issue16290] PyComplex_AsCComplex should allow __complex__ to return float.
Mark Dickinson
report at bugs.python.org
Sat Oct 20 15:17:44 CEST 2012
Mark Dickinson added the comment:
> This means that you should add a branch for integers too.
I'd rather not go that far, at least in this issue: we'd also end up changing __float__ to allow it to return an int, in that case. If we're considering that, the discussion should go back to python-dev / python-ideas.
One difference is that int -> float is a lossy conversion that has to care about details like rounding and overflow. float -> complex in contrast is much simpler.
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