"a better input"

[Michael Hudson]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:

> > *I realize there are no true complex literals, we'd have to do a little
> > extra work here
> 
> What extra work?
> 
> >>> complex('23+45j')
> (23+45j)

Well, how does cooked_input or whatever tell that 23+45j is a complex
literal?  The parser won't, at present...

Cheers,
M.

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