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Author ncoghlan
Recipients Arfrever, Trundle, benjamin.peterson, eric.snow, georg.brandl, loewis, marienz, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray, terry.reedy
Date 2011-07-17.06:32:24
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After further reflection, I (eventually) came to the same conclusion as Benjamin and Antoine - using SyntaxError for this is fine.

However, the exception *message* should make it clear that this is an implementation limit rather than a language limit.
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2011-07-17 06:32:24ncoghlansetrecipients: + ncoghlan, loewis, georg.brandl, terry.reedy, marienz, pitrou, benjamin.peterson, Arfrever, r.david.murray, Trundle, eric.snow
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