Complex evaluation bug

[Christophe]

Fredrik Lundh a écrit :
> 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
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>  >>> 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" ?
> 
> </F>
> 

Oups, I was too fast to read what was written. I though you only changed 
one of the terms ( str -> repr ).

You'll note that repr and str produce the exact same result for complex. 
And also, I'm not sure using eval anywhere is a good idea so it probably 
doesn't help for what the OP wants to do.