commit 6b1e43b7bcbb85bd042d824e957971392d62beb7
author Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> Wed May 20 18:41:04 2009 +0000
committer Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> Wed May 20 18:41:04 2009 +0000
tree a9fcbc22f9463837d9c936935c7ef36bcd1cbdd9
parent e2e1561a15c76bc9089248ab63c9ac74325e13da

Issue #5829: complex('1e500') shouldn't raise OverflowError

Misc/NEWS

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7ecbd3f..ea5d090 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError.  This
+  makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
+  and imaginary literals.
+
 - Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
 
 - Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.