On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:36:47PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:

[Jeff Epler]

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Oh -- there are some floats f for which float(long(f)) raises an OverflowError in float()?

No, at least not unless the machine has very strange arithmetic. For an IEEE box, [...]

Thanks. I re-read the message I was replying to, and now I see the problem with the code I proposed. I just didn't get it the first time. Jeff