Mark Dickinson added the comment: I can reproduce here (OS X 10.9, Python 3.5), exactly as described in the original post.
Python 3.5.0 (default, Sep 22 2015, 18:26:54) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import statistics >>> statistics.mean([8.988465674311579e+307, 8.98846567431158e+307]) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/statistics.py", line 293, in mean return _sum(data)/n File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/statistics.py", line 184, in _sum return T(total) File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/numbers.py", line 291, in __float__ return self.numerator / self.denominator OverflowError: integer division result too large for a float ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25177> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com