[Python-Dev] return type of __complex__

[Mark Dickinson]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> 2012/10/19 Antonio Cuni <anto.cuni at gmail.com>:
>> indeed, you are right. So I suppose that in pypy we could just relax the check
>> in cmath and be happy. Is there any chance that this will be changed in 2.7
>> and/or 3.x?
>
> Certainly 3.x, but not 2.7.

+1 for relaxing the check in 3.x.

The cmath code uses "PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "D", ...) for this;
perhaps it's the "D" format for PyArg_ParseTuple that should be
relaxed.  It seems more than reasonable to allow floats wherever a
complex number is expected.

Mark