Python Packages for Complex Numbers and Matrix Math

Maan Hamze mmhamze at pleiades.net
Sun Aug 26 21:39:15 EDT 2001


"Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams" <ignacio at openservices.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.998866419.18595.python-list at python.org...
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Maan Hamze wrote:
>
> > 2.  Also,
> > >>> x = 4 + 7j
> > >>> x.imag = 6
> > error:  object has a read-only attrib
> > >>> x.real = 7
> > same error of read-olny attrib
> >
> > why?
>
> Because. I could look into the source (or point you to the source), but
the
> answer would still simply be "Because".
>
So to pass a value to either the imag or real part:
>>> a=1
>>> b=2
>>> c=complex(a,b)
>>> b = 3
>>> c=complex(a,b)
and so on........
or something like:
>>> def PassValue(a,b):
...  r=complex(a,b)
...  return r
Maan





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