Python's numeric tower
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Sun Jun 15 11:33:19 EDT 2014
On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 01:22:50 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> Does anyone know any examples of values or types from the standard
>> library or well-known third-party libraries which satisfies
>> isinstance(a, numbers.Number) but not isinstance(a, numbers.Complex)?
>
>>>> issubclass(decimal.Decimal, numbers.Number)
> True
>>>> issubclass(decimal.Decimal, numbers.Complex)
> False
Well, that surprises and disappoints me, but thank you for the answer.
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Steven
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