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Bug 692381 - ValueError on passing inf float argument
ValueError on passing inf float argument
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: pygobject
Classification: Bindings
Component: general
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nobody's working on this now (help wanted and appreciated)
Python bindings maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-01-23 13:20 UTC by Christoph Reiter (lazka)
Modified: 2013-01-23 13:58 UTC
See Also:
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Description Christoph Reiter (lazka) 2013-01-23 13:20:40 UTC 
>>> import gi
>>> gi.version_info
(3, 4, 2)
>>> from gi.repository import GObject
>>> v = GObject.Value()
>>> v.init(GObject.TYPE_FLOAT)
0.0
>>> v.set_float(float('inf'))
Traceback (most recent call last):

+ Trace 231422

  • File "<stdin>", line 1 in <module>
  • File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/types.py", line 47 in function 
    return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs)
ValueError: %f not in range %f to %f 


same for double and float('-inf'), float('nan') works
Comment 1 Martin Pitt 2013-01-23 13:58:23 UTC 
Fixed that and the broken error message, including tests:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/pygobject/commit/?id=e65c124893ceaa9c97eb4c8c743fbeb756b9a6e6

Thank you for the report!