It crashes because it tries to convert 10**400 to a float and that fails:

>>> 10**400 / 1e200
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#10>", line 1, in <module>
    10**400 / 1e200
OverflowError: int too large to convert to float

But with two ints it succeeds:

>>> 10**400 / 10**200
1e+200

Note that 1e200 is an integer:

>>> 1e200.is_integer()
True

So that could losslessly be converted to int, and then the division would succeed:

>>> 10**400 / int(1e200)
1e+200

So could/should 10**400 / 1e200 be implemented to do that instead of raising the error? Or is it a too rare use case and not worth the effort, or does something else speak against it?
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