Issue #9041: raised exception is misleading

An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and ctypes.c_float that
caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the case of overflow has been
fixed.
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Meador Inge 2012-05-28 13:52:59 -05:00
parent d9d276b0dc
commit fe7aa49f24
3 changed files with 19 additions and 25 deletions

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@ -216,6 +216,16 @@ class NumberTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
# probably be changed:
self.assertRaises(TypeError, c_int, c_long(42))
def test_float_overflow(self):
import sys
big_int = int(sys.float_info.max) * 2
for t in float_types + [c_longdouble]:
self.assertRaises(OverflowError, t, big_int)
if (hasattr(t, "__ctype_be__")):
self.assertRaises(OverflowError, t.__ctype_be__, big_int)
if (hasattr(t, "__ctype_le__")):
self.assertRaises(OverflowError, t.__ctype_le__, big_int)
## def test_perf(self):
## check_perf()