[Anthony Baxter]
... Linux/sparc Debian 2.2 (cf.sf.net) FAILED This is scary. I don't know why this one alone fails - it fails the test_math test.
Running the test by hand: anthonybaxter@usf-cf-sparc-linux-1:~/python212_linxsparc$ PYTHONPATH= ./python ./Lib/test/test_math.py math module, testing with eps 1e-05 constants acos Traceback (most recent call last): File "./Lib/test/test_math.py", line 21, in ? testit('acos(-1)', math.acos(-1), math.pi) OverflowError: math range error
Running math.acos(-1) gives the correct answer. Anyone got any idea?
Sorry, not short of stepping into mathmodule.c under a debugger. The only interesting thing about that test is that math.acos(-1) is the very first call test_math.py makes to the platform libm. Perhaps if you commented it out, you'd get a bogus OverflowError from testit('acos(0)', math.acos(0), math.pi/2) on the following line.