Re: real/imag for t_QUAD

[Karim Belabas <Karim.Belabas@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

* Karim Belabas [2019-07-30 00:35]:
> * Vincent Delecroix [2019-07-30 00:28]:
> > Le 30/07/2019 à 00:25, Bill Allombert a écrit :
> > > But the real question is why do you want to use t_QUAD ?
> > 
> > I don't want to use it. I am working on cypari2. I want to fix the
> > conversion of GEN to Python complex number (double floating point
> > precision). This used to rely on real_i/imag_i and the question is
> > how should I deal with t_QUAD properly?
> 
>  x = quadtofp(x, DEFAULTPREC); 
> 
> and then you have an ordinary complex number (possibly real or even rational)
> to worry about.

More generally, gtofp() is the standard libpari idiom to replace GP's x * 1.

Cheers,

    K.B.
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