I hope the title of this makes sense. I've been out of things for a long time.

Going through the Python tutorial (http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduction.html) I departed from the script to try something. It gave neither of the results I had thought it might.

    >>> (0+1j)*(0+1j).imag
    1j
    >>> (0+1j)*(0+1j).real
    0j
    >>> a=(0+1j)*(0+1j)
    >>> a.imag
    0.0
    >>> a.real
    -1.0
    >>> 

This being my first crack at this language, I may have missed something that is obvious to the more experienced.

In my naivety, I thought that slicing the result of a calculation should work - why not? It should have the same structure as that pointed to by a variable.

So I'll leave this for either somebody with the patience to put me straight or somebody to fix.

Cheers!

The precedence doesn't work the way you think it does. Your example with the intermediate variable is the same as:

>>> ((0+1j)*(0+1j)).imag
0.0
>>> ((0+1j)*(0+1j)).real
-1.0

Note the extra level of parens so that .imag and .real are applied to the result of the multiplication.

Thanks!

I'm not surprised that it was something stupidofme like that.

Sorry to have troubled you.

:)