New submission from Keith Randall: >>> 1e200*1e200 inf >>> 1e200**2 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: (34, 'Numerical result out of range')
Shouldn't floating-point operations overflow to inf, not generate exceptions? ---------- components: Interpreter Core messages: 210517 nosy: Keith.Randall priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: ** operator does not overflow to inf type: behavior versions: Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20543> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com