Issue #5816:
- simplify parsing and printing of complex numbers
- make complex(repr(z)) round-tripping work for complex
numbers involving nans, infs, or negative zeros
- don't accept some of the stranger complex strings
that were previously allowed---e.g., complex('1..1j')
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5515af9..082aa2f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
+ z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
+
- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
floats, ints, and longs.