proposed language change to int/int==float (was: PEP0238 lament)

[Bengt Richter]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:54:13 -0400, Guido van Rossum <guido at zope.com> wrote:
[...]
>Assuming we'll adopt a variation of Scheme's numerical tower (which
>I'm currently in favor of, more or less), this won't happen.  Floats
>and complex would always be considered inexact (and ints and rationals
>exact), and inexact numbers are not allowed as sequence indices, even
>if their exact value is an integer.
>
Why would complex have to be inexact if both its
real and imaginary parts were exact?

This looks exact, but will it be?
 >>> (1+2j)**2
 (-3+4j)