Issue #5829: don't raise OverflowError for complex('1e500'). Backport of r72803.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_complex.py b/Lib/test/test_complex.py
index 56e9083..60c5252 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_complex.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_complex.py
@@ -431,6 +431,13 @@
@unittest.skipUnless(float.__getformat__("double").startswith("IEEE"),
"test requires IEEE 754 doubles")
+ def test_overflow(self):
+ self.assertEqual(complex("1e500"), complex(INF, 0.0))
+ self.assertEqual(complex("-1e500j"), complex(0.0, -INF))
+ self.assertEqual(complex("-1e500+1.8e308j"), complex(-INF, INF))
+
+ @unittest.skipUnless(float.__getformat__("double").startswith("IEEE"),
+ "test requires IEEE 754 doubles")
def test_repr_roundtrip(self):
vals = [0.0, 1e-500, 1e-315, 1e-200, 0.0123, 3.1415, 1e50, INF, NAN]
vals += [-v for v in vals]