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-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-11-18-17-10-20.bpo-38631.tRHaAk.rst2
-rw-r--r--Objects/floatobject.c3
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-11-18-17-10-20.bpo-38631.tRHaAk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-11-18-17-10-20.bpo-38631.tRHaAk.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d05ad05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-11-18-17-10-20.bpo-38631.tRHaAk.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Replace ``Py_FatalError()`` call with a regular :exc:`RuntimeError`
+exception in :meth:`float.__getformat__`.
diff --git a/Objects/floatobject.c b/Objects/floatobject.c
index 8c08866..3f9bbde 100644
--- a/Objects/floatobject.c
+++ b/Objects/floatobject.c
@@ -1726,7 +1726,8 @@ float___getformat___impl(PyTypeObject *type, const char *typestr)
case ieee_big_endian_format:
return PyUnicode_FromString("IEEE, big-endian");
default:
- Py_FatalError("insane float_format or double_format");
+ PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError,
+ "insane float_format or double_format");
return NULL;
}
}