As many have heard, IronPython 1.0 was released. When I was looking through the listed differences between CPython and IronPython, the document mentioned that using large exponents such as 10 ** 735293857239475 will cause CPython to hang, whereas IronPython will raise a ValueError. Trying this on my own machine, it did indeed seem to cause CPython to hang. In cases such as this, should this be considered a bug in the CPython implementation that needs to be fixed? Or is there a reason for this, such as consideration of future changes and language definition vs language implementation, etc.?
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