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Re: 'complex' function with string argument.

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From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date 2014-03-19 12:45 -0600
Subject Re: 'complex' function with string argument.
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.8284.1395254749.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
>> When is it ever useful though?
>
> About as often as int(0), float(0), or float(0.0) which all work as
> expected, though probably don't turn up in a lot of code.

The analogous call to those is complex(1+2j), which I have no problem
with, not complex(1+2j, 3+4j).

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'complex' function with string argument. Jayanth Koushik <jnkoushik@gmail.com> - 2014-03-15 09:26 -0700
  Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-17 11:18 -0500
    Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-18 04:03 +1100
      Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-17 20:15 +0200
        Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-03-17 12:28 -0600
        Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-18 05:59 +1100
          Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-17 21:22 +0200
            Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-18 06:32 +1100
            Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-18 04:08 +0000
      Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-17 13:20 -0500
    Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-18 04:52 +0000
      Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-18 15:59 +1100
      Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-18 11:14 -0500
        Re: 'complex' function with string argument. wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-03-19 00:30 -0700
          Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-19 10:51 +0200
            Re: 'complex' function with string argument. wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-03-19 02:52 -0700
              Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-19 12:09 +0200
                Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-03-19 04:33 -0600
                Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-19 12:53 +0200
                Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-03-19 13:35 -0600
                Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-03-19 06:04 -0500
                Re: 'complex' function with string argument. wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-03-19 07:35 -0700
                Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-03-19 12:45 -0600
  Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Mark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com> - 2014-03-17 17:55 +0000
  Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-03-17 18:06 -0400
  Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-03-17 18:59 -0500
  Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-18 11:16 +1100
  Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-03-17 20:07 -0500
  Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-03-18 08:04 +0100
    Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-18 18:11 +1100
    Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-18 08:00 +0000
      Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-03-18 09:21 +0100
        Re: 'complex' function with string argument. Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-18 16:00 +0200

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