Issue #5859: Remove use of fixed-length buffers for float formatting
in unicodeobject.c and the fallback version of PyOS_double_to_string.
As a result, operations like '%.120e' % 12.34 no longer raise an
exception.
diff --git a/Lib/test/string_tests.py b/Lib/test/string_tests.py
index 2a58e58..1637efb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/string_tests.py
+++ b/Lib/test/string_tests.py
@@ -1105,14 +1105,7 @@
value = 0.01
for x in range(60):
value = value * 3.141592655 / 3.0 * 10.0
- # The formatfloat() code in stringobject.c and
- # unicodeobject.c uses a 120 byte buffer and switches from
- # 'f' formatting to 'g' at precision 50, so we expect
- # OverflowErrors for the ranges x < 50 and prec >= 67.
- if x < 50 and prec >= 67:
- self.checkraises(OverflowError, format, "__mod__", value)
- else:
- self.checkcall(format, "__mod__", value)
+ self.checkcall(format, "__mod__", value)
def test_inplace_rewrites(self):
# Check that strings don't copy and modify cached single-character strings