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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients alexhsamuel, antocuni, benjamin.peterson, mark.dickinson, meador.inge, nascheme, r.david.murray
Date 2012-10-18.12:04:01
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No, that's expected behaviour.

1j is complex(0.0, 1.0)
-1j is complex(-0.0, -1.0)

so -1j.real is -0.0.  There's not really any other sensible way to handle this.

The complex-from-string constructor, on the other hand, is more careful about interpreting signs.
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