From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:08:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Note the tighter complex() parameter checking.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.1c1~363
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6c01e25d9f6b33bf7be5d4ae6b6443419761d9ba;p=python

Note the tighter complex() parameter checking.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ecc2cfdfe5..903ff378d0 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ Core and builtins
   division becomes the default (in the meantime, test_coercion is
   testing the current rules).
 
+- complex() now only allows the first argument to be a string
+  argument, and raises TypeError if either the second arg is a string
+  or if the second arg is specified when the first is a string.
+
 Extension modules
 
 - gc.get_referents was renamed to gc.get_referrers.