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Re:Things I Wish I Had Known About Django Development Before... by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @07:46PM (#5568098)
I would guess complex objects - containers, or strange databasey stuff.

The way to deal with is __complex__ as a method on the object and recurse through asking the complex method to return nested simpler python types.

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Re:Things I Wish I Had Known About Django Development Before... by danellis on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @10:00PM (#5568541)
__complex__ is for converting to a complex number.
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Re:Things I Wish I Had Known About Django Development Before... by davesque on Thursday April 18, 2013 @12:55AM (#5568961)
yeah, danellis is right. don't use __complex__ for that. it's for complex numbers:

http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#complex --and-- http://docs.python.org/2/library/cmath.html

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