Issue #9041: raised exception is misleading

An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and ctypes.c_float that
caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the case of overflow has been
fixed.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/Modules/_ctypes/cfield.c b/Modules/_ctypes/cfield.c
index 1c4eba9..14bc981 100644
--- a/Modules/_ctypes/cfield.c
+++ b/Modules/_ctypes/cfield.c
@@ -999,12 +999,8 @@ g_set(void *ptr, PyObject *value, Py_ssize_t size)
     long double x;
 
     x = PyFloat_AsDouble(value);
-    if (x == -1 && PyErr_Occurred()) {
-        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
-                     " float expected instead of %s instance",
-                     value->ob_type->tp_name);
+    if (x == -1 && PyErr_Occurred())
         return NULL;
-    }
     memcpy(ptr, &x, sizeof(long double));
     _RET(value);
 }
@@ -1023,12 +1019,8 @@ d_set(void *ptr, PyObject *value, Py_ssize_t size)
     double x;
 
     x = PyFloat_AsDouble(value);
-    if (x == -1 && PyErr_Occurred()) {
-        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
-                     " float expected instead of %s instance",
-                     value->ob_type->tp_name);
+    if (x == -1 && PyErr_Occurred())
         return NULL;
-    }
     memcpy(ptr, &x, sizeof(double));
     _RET(value);
 }
@@ -1047,12 +1039,8 @@ d_set_sw(void *ptr, PyObject *value, Py_ssize_t size)
     double x;
 
     x = PyFloat_AsDouble(value);
-    if (x == -1 && PyErr_Occurred()) {
-        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
-                     " float expected instead of %s instance",
-                     value->ob_type->tp_name);
+    if (x == -1 && PyErr_Occurred())
         return NULL;
-    }
 #ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
     if (_PyFloat_Pack8(x, (unsigned char *)ptr, 1))
         return NULL;
@@ -1079,12 +1067,8 @@ f_set(void *ptr, PyObject *value, Py_ssize_t size)
     float x;
 
     x = (float)PyFloat_AsDouble(value);
-    if (x == -1 && PyErr_Occurred()) {
-        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
-                     " float expected instead of %s instance",
-                     value->ob_type->tp_name);
+    if (x == -1 && PyErr_Occurred())
         return NULL;
-    }
     memcpy(ptr, &x, sizeof(x));
     _RET(value);
 }
@@ -1103,12 +1087,8 @@ f_set_sw(void *ptr, PyObject *value, Py_ssize_t size)
     float x;
 
     x = (float)PyFloat_AsDouble(value);
-    if (x == -1 && PyErr_Occurred()) {
-        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
-                     " float expected instead of %s instance",
-                     value->ob_type->tp_name);
+    if (x == -1 && PyErr_Occurred())
         return NULL;
-    }
 #ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
     if (_PyFloat_Pack4(x, (unsigned char *)ptr, 1))
         return NULL;