Meador Inge <mead...@gmail.com> added the comment:
After thinking about it a bit more I am OK with Vinay's proposal. Attached is
an updated patch.
Also, I also noticed that the 'struct' module has the same problem:
>>> big_int = int(sys.float_info.max) * 2
>>> struct.pack('d', big_int)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
struct.error: required argument is not a float
but the 'array' module does the right thing:
>>> big_int = int(sys.float_info.max) * 2
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>>> array.array('d', [big_int])
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OverflowError: long int too large to convert to float
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>>> array.array('d', [""])
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: a float is required
Mark, do you have any opinions on the error handling here and in the struct
module?
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nosy: +mark.dickinson
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24518/issue9041-v0.patch
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