[long and fussy] But what do these operators _mean_?

[Warren B. Focke]

(Edward Jason Riedy):
>And then there are issues with complex.  -0.0j = -0j, but 
>complex(0.0,-0.0) = 0j.  And there seems to be no way to construct
>1-0j at all.  This is painful when you think about branch cuts

>>> complex(-1, 0) * -1
(1-0j)

but

>>> (complex(-1, 0) * -1) * 1
(1+0j)

and it's probably not portable anyway.

Warren Focke
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