Casting numpy.complex64 to (Python) complex chops off imaginary part (Trac #1617)

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Original ticket http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1617 on 2010-09-20 by @inducer, assigned to unknown.

Example session:

>>> import numpy
>>> numpy.complex64(1+2j)
(1+2j)
>>> complex(numpy.complex64(1+2j))
(1+0j)

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@pv wrote on 2010-09-21

Thanks, fixed in

14d8e20, d8200

And for 1.5.x

fd873b, 1bc88b9

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Milestone changed to 1.5.1 by @pv on 2010-09-21