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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/stdtypes.rst2
-rw-r--r--Objects/stringlib/formatter.h2
-rw-r--r--Objects/unicodeobject.c2
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 608cb07..a51fb75 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1322,7 +1322,7 @@ that ``'\0'`` is the end of the string.
.. XXX Examples?
For safety reasons, floating point precisions are clipped to 50; ``%f``
-conversions for numbers whose absolute value is over 1e25 are replaced by ``%g``
+conversions for numbers whose absolute value is over 1e50 are replaced by ``%g``
conversions. [#]_ All other errors raise exceptions.
.. index::
diff --git a/Objects/stringlib/formatter.h b/Objects/stringlib/formatter.h
index 2e3e5a6..86235a6 100644
--- a/Objects/stringlib/formatter.h
+++ b/Objects/stringlib/formatter.h
@@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ format_float_internal(PyObject *value,
if (precision < 0)
precision = 6;
- if (type == 'f' && (fabs(x) / 1e25) >= 1e25)
+ if (type == 'f' && fabs(x) >= 1e50)
type = 'g';
/* cast "type", because if we're in unicode we need to pass a
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index bcae239..f15e7cd 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -8847,7 +8847,7 @@ formatfloat(Py_UNICODE *buf,
return -1;
if (prec < 0)
prec = 6;
- if (type == 'f' && (fabs(x) / 1e25) >= 1e25)
+ if (type == 'f' && fabs(x) >= 1e50)
type = 'g';
/* Worst case length calc to ensure no buffer overrun: