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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:45:06 -0600
Subject: Re: 'complex' function with string argument.
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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).