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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients garybernhardt, gdr@garethrees.org, josh.r, mark.dickinson, ncoghlan, pitrou, skrah, vstinner
Date 2014-04-09.22:11:06
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Josh: well spotted; thanks for picking up on this.  I was wondering whether anyone would pick up on that, and I should have mentioned the change explicitly.

I do think ValueError is the correct exception here.  My interpretation of OverflowError is that it represents an overflow occurring during the computation, and that's not what's happening here: we're flat-out rejecting an input value because it's out of the range of values we accept.  Stefan's message influenced me a bit in that direction, too.
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