[Python-Dev] return type of __complex__

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sun Oct 21 11:18:22 CEST 2012


On 21/10/12 19:47, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> On 21.10.12 09:05, Greg Ewing wrote:
>> The equivalent solution here would be to add a new operator
>> for complex exponentiation that coerces its operands to
>> complex, and restrict the existing one to floats only.
>
> In case of division a new operator (//) restricted to ints only,
>and the existing one coerces its operands to floats.

That is incorrect. // works fine with non-ints.


py> 42.9//3.4
12.0



-- 
Steven


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