Thanks for the correction Mark, I didn't realize that!<div><br></div><div>Shantanu is right about what my ask was meant to be.&nbsp; I guess I'm nowhere near the first to propose things like this and there's a lot of discussion in various threads about it that I wasn't aware of.<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Neil</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">On Monday, January 18, 2021 at 3:56:59 PM UTC-5 Shantanu Jain wrote:<br/></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Yes, I believe the ask is for `int.__complex__`, `float.__complex__` and `complex.__complex__` (<a href="https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/3186#issuecomment-762121456" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/3186%23issuecomment-762121456&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611093238814000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFspsvZxTdP5VPj2KasD0mLNdGeow">https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/3186#issuecomment-762121456</a>)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 at 09:47, Mark Dickinson &lt;<a href data-email-masked rel="nofollow">mdick...@enthought.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Inheriting from `numbers.Real` _does_ give you `__complex__`, though: <a href="https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/314b8787e0c50985ba708034b84ff5b37a1d47de/Lib/numbers.py#L245-L248" rel="noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/314b8787e0c50985ba708034b84ff5b37a1d47de/Lib/numbers.py%23L245-L248&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611093238814000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFYACPf0C-omtN9SyToLoVw069Gaw">https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/314b8787e0c50985ba708034b84ff5b37a1d47de/Lib/numbers.py#L245-L248</a><br>
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Is it instead `float.__complex__` you&#39;re asking for?<br>
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