[issue14722] Overflow in parsing 'float' parameters in PyArg_ParseTuple*

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

> And it checks strictly out of ±DBL_MAX.

Nope.  Values just larger than DBL_MAX won't raise OverflowError here.

> Because float(10**1000) returns no float('inf'), but raises an
> exception, I think that returning ±∞ will be wrong.

Possibly.  But there's also the fact that 3.2 already returns inf here;  we'd need a pretty good reason to break that.  Like I said, I'm not sure which the right way to go here is.

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