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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2017-09-10 23:50:46 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-09-10 23:50:46 -0700
commit2bb69a5b4e7f96cb35d1b28aa7b7b3974b351f59 (patch)
treeb7f672d07435aff1060d27f20867365e637b8df9 /Lib/test/test_float.py
parent252033d50effa08046ac34fcc406bc99796ab88b (diff)
downloadcpython-git-2bb69a5b4e7f96cb35d1b28aa7b7b3974b351f59.tar.gz
bpo-31373: remove overly strict float range checks (#3486)
This undoes a853a8ba7850381d49b284295dd6f0dc491dbe44 except for the pytime.c parts. We want to continue to allow IEEE 754 doubles larger than FLT_MAX to be rounded into finite floats. Tests were added to very this behavior.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_float.py b/Lib/test/test_float.py
index 66726d6496..a16c05cf5d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_float.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_float.py
@@ -617,6 +617,12 @@ class IEEEFormatTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
('<f', LE_FLOAT_NAN)]:
struct.unpack(fmt, data)
+ @support.requires_IEEE_754
+ def test_serialized_float_rounding(self):
+ from _testcapi import FLT_MAX
+ self.assertEqual(struct.pack("<f", 3.40282356e38), struct.pack("<f", FLT_MAX))
+ self.assertEqual(struct.pack("<f", -3.40282356e38), struct.pack("<f", -FLT_MAX))
+
class FormatTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
def test_format(self):