Original ticket http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/191 on 2006-07-19 by @stefanv, assigned to unknown.

I'm tentatively filing this, although I am not sure exactly what the expected behaviour should be.

I expect the following snippet to raise an error:

x = N.array(['1.1'])
N.seterr(over='raise')
x[0] = '1.111'