[Python-Dev] trunc()

[Terry Reedy]

"Jeffrey Yasskin" <jyasskin at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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|| To elaborate the point I was trying to make: If float() does not mean
| "the float part of"

The 'float part' of a complex number is meaningless since both components 
of a complex are floats (in practice, or reals in theory).  The same is 
true in polar representation.

| and should not take a complex argument (which I
| completely agree with), then int() does not mean "the int part of" and
| should not take a float argument.

The 'integer (int) part' of a float/rational/real is established thru 
decades of usage.  Your consequent is false and in no way follows from your 
antecendent.

tjr