New submission from Pauli Rikula <pauli.rik...@gmail.com>: Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec 7 2009, 18:45:15) [GCC 4.4.1] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import ctypes >>> ctypes.c_double(-10L) c_double(-10.0) >>> ctypes.c_double(-16158503035655503650357438344334975980222051334857742016065172713762327569433945446598600705761456731844358980460949009747059779575245460547544076193224141560315438683650498045875098875194826053398028819192033784138396109321309878080919047169238085235290822926018152521443787945770532904303776199561965192761047051351577287005728952652821735984108986866610276357675617870244379434256980638641483535093292326373531858799166625357628570460558031263448272521936380684506350754039141397287742159767011772534248723062567540713722795836229745796676103584020939467516975660579180998612463422664938089473950280866877864444041L) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: float expected instead of long instance
.. vs: >>> float(-16158503035655503650357438344334975980222051334857742016065172713762327569433945446598600705761456731844358980460949009747059779575245460547544076193224141560315438683650498045875098875194826053398028819192033784138396109321309878080919047169238085235290822926018152521443787945770532904303776199561965192761047051351577287005728952652821735984108986866610276357675617870244379434256980638641483535093292326373531858799166625357628570460558031263448272521936380684506350754039141397287742159767011772534248723062567540713722795836229745796676103584020939467516975660579180998612463422664938089473950280866877864444041L) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: long int too large to convert to float ---------- assignee: theller components: ctypes messages: 108265 nosy: kumma, theller priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: raised exception is misleading type: behavior versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9041> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
