raise exception in arange, if step size is 0

code/numpy/create.c

@@ -152,6 +152,12 @@ mp_obj_t create_arange(size_t n_args, const mp_obj_t *pos_args, mp_map_t *kw_arg
     if(args[3].u_obj != mp_const_none) {
         dtype = (uint8_t)mp_obj_get_int(args[3].u_obj);
     }
+
+    // bail out, if the range cannot be constructed
+    if(step == MICROPY_FLOAT_CONST(0.0)) {
+        mp_raise_msg(&mp_type_ZeroDivisionError, MP_ERROR_TEXT("divide by zero"));
+    }
+
     ndarray_obj_t *ndarray;
     if((stop - start)/step < 0) {
         ndarray = ndarray_new_linear_array(0, dtype);

code/ulab.c

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 #include "user/user.h"
 #include "utils/utils.h"
 
-#define ULAB_VERSION 6.0.5
+#define ULAB_VERSION 6.0.6
 #define xstr(s) str(s)
 #define str(s) #s
 

docs/ulab-change-log.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sun, 21 Jan 2023
+
+version 6.0.6
+
+    raise proper exception in arange
     
 Sun, 21 Jan 2023
 

tests/2d/numpy/arange.py

@@ -9,3 +9,9 @@ for dtype in dtypes:
     print(np.arange(10, dtype=dtype))
     print(np.arange(2, 10, dtype=dtype))
     print(np.arange(2, 10, 3, dtype=dtype))
+
+# test for ZeroDivisionError exception
+try:
+    np.arange(0, 10, 0)
+except ZeroDivisionError as e:
+    print('ZeroDivisionError: ', e)

tests/2d/numpy/arange.py.exp

@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ array([2, 5, 8], dtype=int16)
 array([0.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0], dtype=float64)
 array([2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0], dtype=float64)
 array([2.0, 5.0, 8.0], dtype=float64)
+ZeroDivisionError:  divide by zero