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  r62914 | skip.montanaro | 2008-05-08 20:45:00 -0400 (Thu, 08 May 2008) | 4 lines

  Add an example about using NamedTemporaryFile() to replace mktemp().  I'm
  unclear whether the verbatim text should have been indented or by how much.
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  r62915 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-08 20:50:40 -0400 (Thu, 08 May 2008) | 2 lines

  reindent example
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  r62927 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:09:25 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2788: add .hgignore file.
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  r62928 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:10:43 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2781: fix function name.
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  r62929 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:18:27 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Add a sentence to basicConfig() that is in the docstring.
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  r62930 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:26:54 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Add another link to colorsys docs.
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  r62931 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:36:07 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Add Kodos as a re reference.
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  r62932 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:39:58 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Add a note about using reload().
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  r62933 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-05-09 07:46:05 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 3 lines

  Update planned release date.
  Uncomment PEP 370 section.
  Add some module items
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  r62934 | christian.heimes | 2008-05-09 08:19:09 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 1 line

  Add --user option to build_ext
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  r62948 | mark.dickinson | 2008-05-09 13:54:23 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 3 lines

  Issue #2487.  math.ldexp(x, n) raised OverflowError when n was large and
  negative; fix to return an (appropriately signed) zero instead.
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  r62949 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-05-09 14:21:55 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 1 line

  Use the CHM file name that Sphinx assigns.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_math.py b/Lib/test/test_math.py
index 379ff89..ff8db7c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_math.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_math.py
@@ -369,6 +369,24 @@
         self.assertEquals(math.ldexp(NINF, -213), NINF)
         self.assert_(math.isnan(math.ldexp(NAN, 0)))
 
+        # large second argument
+        for n in [10**5, 10**10, 10**20, 10**40]:
+            self.assertEquals(math.ldexp(INF, -n), INF)
+            self.assertEquals(math.ldexp(NINF, -n), NINF)
+            self.assertEquals(math.ldexp(1., -n), 0.)
+            self.assertEquals(math.ldexp(-1., -n), -0.)
+            self.assertEquals(math.ldexp(0., -n), 0.)
+            self.assertEquals(math.ldexp(-0., -n), -0.)
+            self.assert_(math.isnan(math.ldexp(NAN, -n)))
+
+            self.assertRaises(OverflowError, math.ldexp, 1., n)
+            self.assertRaises(OverflowError, math.ldexp, -1., n)
+            self.assertEquals(math.ldexp(0., n), 0.)
+            self.assertEquals(math.ldexp(-0., n), -0.)
+            self.assertEquals(math.ldexp(INF, n), INF)
+            self.assertEquals(math.ldexp(NINF, n), NINF)
+            self.assert_(math.isnan(math.ldexp(NAN, n)))
+
     def testLog(self):
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, math.log)
         self.ftest('log(1/e)', math.log(1/math.e), -1)