From 317b3f257da727419118b8c8bd5e3280dd47e8c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ronny Pfannschmidt <ronny.pfannschmidt@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:20:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] optparse compatibility - add float and complex

also documents the implementation quality
fixes #457
---
 _pytest/config.py | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/_pytest/config.py b/_pytest/config.py
index 68a3dafbe0d..17d0837cc58 100644
--- a/_pytest/config.py
+++ b/_pytest/config.py
@@ -552,11 +552,18 @@ def __str__(self):
 
 
 class Argument:
-    """class that mimics the necessary behaviour of optparse.Option """
+    """class that mimics the necessary behaviour of optparse.Option
+
+    its currently a least effort implementation
+    and ignoring choices and integer prefixes
+    https://docs.python.org/3/library/optparse.html#optparse-standard-option-types
+    """
     _typ_map = {
         'int': int,
         'string': str,
-        }
+        'float': float,
+        'complex': complex,
+    }
     # enable after some grace period for plugin writers
     TYPE_WARN = False