Complex evaluation bug

[Mel Wilson]

of wrote:
> a = 1+3j
> complex(str(a))
> 
> Why does this not work ? It should

It would be nice.
Looks like str(1+3j) is returning an expression in string 
form.  Maybe there is no actual complex literal.

eval (str(1+3j)) works.

Python 2.4.2 (#1, Jan 23 2006, 21:24:54) [GCC 3.3.4] on linux2
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 >>> 1+3j
(1+3j)
 >>> str(1+3j)
'(1+3j)'
 >>> complex (str(1+3j))
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: complex() arg is a malformed string
 >>> eval (str(1+3j))
(1+3j)
 >>> eval(str(1+3j))**2
(-8+6j)