Complex evaluation bug

[Fredrik Lundh]

Christophe wrote:

>> So, putting them together, you could expect
>>    eval(repr(a))
>> to reproduce a, and in fact it does so.
> 
> Says who ?
> 
> Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on 
> win32
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>  >>> repr(1+3j)
> '(1+3j)'
>  >>> complex(repr(1+3j))
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ValueError: complex() arg is a malformed string
>  >>>

in what language is "eval" spelled "complex" ?

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