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Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	christian.heimes, collinwinter, facundobatista, mark.dickinson, richardh2003, tim.peters
Date	2008-03-08.18:13:52
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Message-id	<1205000036.32.0.439353750597.issue705836@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Coming back to this, I think that it actually is clear what struct(">f", large_float) should do: it should raise OverflowError. This fits in well with the general philosophy that Python (at least tries to) follow for floating-point exceptions. The attached patch (705836_v2.patch) fixes this. All tests pass with this patch applied. I'll leave this around for a few days in case anyone wants to comment on it; then I plan to apply it to the trunk.

Coming back to this, I think that it actually *is* clear what
struct(">f", large_float) should do:  it should raise OverflowError.
This fits in well with the general philosophy that Python (at least
tries to) follow for floating-point exceptions.

The attached patch (705836_v2.patch) fixes this.  All tests pass with 
this patch applied.

I'll leave this around for a few days in case anyone wants to comment on 
it;  then I plan to apply it to the trunk.

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2008-03-08 18:13:56	mark.dickinson	set	spambayes_score: 0.0127011 -> 0.012701073 recipients: + mark.dickinson, tim.peters, collinwinter, facundobatista, richardh2003, christian.heimes
2008-03-08 18:13:56	mark.dickinson	set	spambayes_score: 0.0127011 -> 0.0127011 messageid: <1205000036.32.0.439353750597.issue705836@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-03-08 18:13:55	mark.dickinson	link	issue705836 messages
2008-03-08 18:13:54	mark.dickinson	create