From d87f22cec82a7c368cd2319c4fadbf4e6159f999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:33:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add better error reporting for MemoryErrors caused by
 str->float conversions.

---
 Lib/test/test_strtod.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_strtod.py b/Lib/test/test_strtod.py
index 1883820ca5f..189254260cd 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_strtod.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_strtod.py
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ class StrtodTests(unittest.TestCase):
             fs = float(s)
         except OverflowError:
             got = '-inf' if s[0] == '-' else 'inf'
+        except MemoryError:
+            got = 'memory error'
         else:
             got = fs.hex()
         expected = strtod(s)