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Author terry.reedy
Recipients Oren Milman, barry, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date 2017-03-24.19:34:41
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https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#len * does not specify the exception.  In such cases, we occasionally change exception in x.y.0 releases without prior notice other than News and What's New.  Also, I think unnecessarily exposing a compile-switch dependent internal detail, as now, is almost a bug.  So +1 to applying in 3.7

* The doc does not specify that 'length' cannot be non-negative.  Perhaps it should, so no-one will think that they can hijack '__len__' to return something that is not a length, as usually understood.
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2017-03-24 19:34:42terry.reedysetrecipients: + terry.reedy, barry, vstinner, serhiy.storchaka, Oren Milman
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