Cyker Way <cyker...@gmail.com> added the comment: IEEE 754, 7.4 Overflow:
> The overflow exception shall be signaled if and only if the destination > format’s largest finite number is exceeded in magnitude by what would have > been the rounded floating-point result (see 4) were the exponent range > unbounded... Were this the basis of the float implementation, not raising an overflow exception seems to be the correct behavior? Then this is not a bug, but the python float doc might better say "If the *rounded* argument is outside..." ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46173> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
