SF bug #543387.
Complex numbers implement divmod() and //, neither of which makes one
lick of sense. Unfortunately this is documented, so I'm adding a
deprecation warning now, so we can delete this silliness, oh, around
2005 or so.
Bugfix candidate (At least for 2.2.2, I think.)
diff --git a/Objects/complexobject.c b/Objects/complexobject.c
index c074aee..3c26b5b2 100644
--- a/Objects/complexobject.c
+++ b/Objects/complexobject.c
@@ -418,6 +418,11 @@
{
Py_complex div, mod;
PyObject *d, *m, *z;
+
+ if (PyErr_Warn(PyExc_DeprecationWarning,
+ "complex divmod() and // are deprecated") < 0)
+ return NULL;
+
errno = 0;
div = c_quot(v->cval,w->cval); /* The raw divisor value. */
if (errno == EDOM) {