[Python-Dev] test_coercion failing

[Guido van Rossum]

> Test_coercion fails on the Mac (current CVS sources) with
> We expected (repr): '(1+0j)'
> But instead we got: '(1-0j)'
> test test_coercion failed -- Writing: '(1-0j)', expected: '(1+0j)'
> 
> The computation it was doing was "2 / (2+0j) =".
> 
> To my mathematical eye it shouldn't be complaining in the first place, 
> but I assume this may be either a missing round() somewhere or a
> symptom of a genuine bug.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Tim admits that he changed complex division and repr().  So that's
where you might want to look.  If you wait a bit, Tim will check his
algorithm to see if a "minus zero" can pop out of it.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)