Test another error case in PyFloat_FromString().

doerwalter · doerwalter · commit ede187f0225a · 2005-11-29T15:45:14.000Z
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_builtin.py b/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
@@ -548,6 +548,8 @@ def test_float(self):
         if have_unicode:
             self.assertEqual(float(unicode("  3.14  ")), 3.14)
             self.assertEqual(float(unicode("  \u0663.\u0661\u0664  ",'raw-unicode-escape')), 3.14)
+            # Implementation limitation in PyFloat_FromString()
+            self.assertRaises(ValueError, float, unicode("1"*10000))
 
     def test_float_with_comma(self):
         # set locale to something that doesn't use '.' for the decimal point
