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Author	skrah
Recipients	gdr@garethrees.org, mark.dickinson, ncoghlan, pitrou, skrah, vstinner
Date	2014-02-07.20:55:08
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Message-id	<20140207205507.GA17382@sleipnir.bytereef.org>
In-reply-to	<1391800209.0.0.937116961296.issue20539@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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I slightly favor the ValueError patch because there is only a single exception to catch. PyLong_AsUnsignedLong() also raises OverflowError for both positive values that are too large and for negative values. Perhaps the error message could contain the actual range of allowed values, especially since LONG_MAX differs across platforms. The drawback is that "outrageously" would have to go then. :)

I slightly favor the ValueError patch because there is only a single exception
to catch. PyLong_AsUnsignedLong() also raises OverflowError for both positive
values that are too large and for negative values.

Perhaps the error message could contain the actual range of allowed values,
especially since LONG_MAX differs across platforms.

The drawback is that "outrageously" would have to go then. :)

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2014-02-07 20:55:08	skrah	set	recipients: + skrah, mark.dickinson, ncoghlan, pitrou, vstinner, gdr@garethrees.org
2014-02-07 20:55:08	skrah	link	issue20539 messages
2014-02-07 20:55:08	skrah	create