diff --git a/Lib/test/test_descr.py b/Lib/test/test_descr.py
index 48cdae8..93c4a19 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_descr.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_descr.py
@@ -4147,6 +4147,26 @@
         c[1:2] = 3
         self.assertEqual(c.value, 3)
 
+    def test_set_and_no_get(self):
+        # See
+        # http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-January/095637.html
+        class Descr(object):
+
+            def __init__(self, name):
+                self.name = name
+
+            def __set__(self, obj, value):
+                obj.__dict__[self.name] = value
+        descr = Descr("a")
+
+        class X(object):
+            a = descr
+
+        x = X()
+        self.assertIs(x.a, descr)
+        x.a = 42
+        self.assertEqual(x.a, 42)
+
     def test_getattr_hooks(self):
         # issue 4230
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_strtod.py b/Lib/test/test_strtod.py
index 13b008b..ab8a7cd 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_strtod.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_strtod.py
@@ -313,6 +313,42 @@
             '4106250198039490000000000000000000000000000000000000000e-38',
             # issue 7632 bug 8:  the following produced 10.0
             '10.900000000000000012345678912345678912345',
+
+            # two humongous values from issue 7743
+            '116512874940594195638617907092569881519034793229385' #...
+            '228569165191541890846564669771714896916084883987920' #...
+            '473321268100296857636200926065340769682863349205363' #...
+            '349247637660671783209907949273683040397979984107806' #...
+            '461822693332712828397617946036239581632976585100633' #...
+            '520260770761060725403904123144384571612073732754774' #...
+            '588211944406465572591022081973828448927338602556287' #...
+            '851831745419397433012491884869454462440536895047499' #...
+            '436551974649731917170099387762871020403582994193439' #...
+            '761933412166821484015883631622539314203799034497982' #...
+            '130038741741727907429575673302461380386596501187482' #...
+            '006257527709842179336488381672818798450229339123527' #...
+            '858844448336815912020452294624916993546388956561522' #...
+            '161875352572590420823607478788399460162228308693742' #...
+            '05287663441403533948204085390898399055004119873046875e-1075',
+
+            '525440653352955266109661060358202819561258984964913' #...
+            '892256527849758956045218257059713765874251436193619' #...
+            '443248205998870001633865657517447355992225852945912' #...
+            '016668660000210283807209850662224417504752264995360' #...
+            '631512007753855801075373057632157738752800840302596' #...
+            '237050247910530538250008682272783660778181628040733' #...
+            '653121492436408812668023478001208529190359254322340' #...
+            '397575185248844788515410722958784640926528544043090' #...
+            '115352513640884988017342469275006999104519620946430' #...
+            '818767147966495485406577703972687838176778993472989' #...
+            '561959000047036638938396333146685137903018376496408' #...
+            '319705333868476925297317136513970189073693314710318' #...
+            '991252811050501448326875232850600451776091303043715' #...
+            '157191292827614046876950225714743118291034780466325' #...
+            '085141343734564915193426994587206432697337118211527' #...
+            '278968731294639353354774788602467795167875117481660' #...
+            '4738791256853675690543663283782215866825e-1180',
+
             # exercise exit conditions in bigcomp comparison loop
             '2602129298404963083833853479113577253105939995688e2',
             '260212929840496308383385347911357725310593999568896e0',