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Author	vstinner
Recipients	_doublep, belopolsky, benjamin.peterson, gregory.p.smith, hagen, pitrou, rbp, rhettinger, vstinner
Date	2008-12-25.23:59:59
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Message-id	<1230249601.14.0.575491873679.issue2723@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Most people disagree with the original idea (len.diff: truncate the length to sys.maxsize). I don't like rbp's patch: replace verbose error message ("Python int too large to convert to C ssize_t") by a shorter message ("Length too large"). If I want to debug my program, I prefer longer error messages. The original message contains the C type: ssize_t, useful information. I dislike both patches. Can we close this issue with resolution=invalid?

Most people disagree with the original idea (len.diff: truncate the 
length to sys.maxsize).

I don't like rbp's patch: replace verbose error message ("Python int 
too large to convert to C ssize_t") by a shorter message ("Length too 
large"). If I want to debug my program, I prefer longer error 
messages. The original message contains the C type: ssize_t, useful 
information.

I dislike both patches. Can we close this issue with 
resolution=invalid?

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-12-26 00:00:01	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, rhettinger, gregory.p.smith, belopolsky, pitrou, _doublep, benjamin.peterson, rbp, hagen
2008-12-26 00:00:01	vstinner	set	messageid: <1230249601.14.0.575491873679.issue2723@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-12-26 00:00:00	vstinner	link	issue2723 messages
2008-12-25 23:59:59	vstinner	create