[New-bugs-announce] [issue7536] float('inf')**2 != inf

[Marcos Donolo]

New submission from Marcos Donolo <mdonolo at vt.edu>:

The ** operator produces an error when it gets inf as an argument.
if I try.
>>>a=float('inf')
>>>a*a 
inf
-but if I try 
>>>a**2 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OverflowError: (34, 'Result too large')
I should get inf too.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 96527
nosy: mdonolo, tim_one
severity: normal
status: open
title: float('inf')**2 != inf
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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