[issue22548] Bogus parsing of negative zeros in complex literals

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson added the comment:

This is not a bug, but a known and difficult-to-avoid issue with signed zeros and creating complex numbers from real and imaginary parts.  The safe way to do it is to use the `complex(real_part, imag_part)` construction.

In the first example, you're subtracting a complex number (0.j) from a float (-0.0).  The float gets promoted to a complex (by filling in an imaginary part of +0.0), and the imaginary literal is similarly treated as a complex number (by filling  in a 0.0 for the real part).  So the subtraction is doing:

  complex(-0.0, 0.0) - complex(0.0, -0.0)

which as expected gives a real part of -0.0, and an imaginary part of +0.0.

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resolution:  -> not a bug
status: open -> closed

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