That sounds like a lot of extra checks to put on "/" when the error message is clear and the user could implement their own checks if they are running into this niche use case and do 10**400 / int(1e200).
Damian (he/him) On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 8:36 AM Stefan Pochmann <smpochm...@gmail.com> wrote: > It crashes because it tries to convert 10**400 to a float and that fails: > > >>> 10**400 / 1e200 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#10>", line 1, in <module> > 10**400 / 1e200 > OverflowError: int too large to convert to float > > But with two ints it succeeds: > > >>> 10**400 / 10**200 > 1e+200 > > Note that 1e200 is an integer: > > >>> 1e200.is_integer() > True > > So that could losslessly be converted to int, and then the division would > succeed: > > >>> 10**400 / int(1e200) > 1e+200 > > So could/should 10**400 / 1e200 be implemented to do that instead of > raising the error? Or is it a too rare use case and not worth the effort, > or does something else speak against it? > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/O7FE5AAWPA77QRQPKJVT6AB3XK7QPUZG/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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