MPF/MPC do not accept unicode as constructor parameter about mpmath-2 HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi jbester, thanks for the bug report! I've committed a fix and a testcase to 
the SVN
repository.

If you need this feature to work and don't want to install the development 
version,
you can just edit mpmath.py and change both instances of

    isinstance(x, str)

to

    isinstance(x, (str, unicode))

Perhaps it'd be better to check for instances of basestring (to support 
user-made
string types?)... I'm not sure about that.

>>> Perhaps it'd be better to check for instances of basestring (to support 
user-made
string types?)... I'm not sure about that.

Python's existing Decimal class as included in 2.5 uses basestring, however, 
that may
run contrary to any compatibility requirements you have.  Either solution works 
for me :)