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Author hakril
Recipients hakril, mark.dickinson, r.david.murray, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date 2014-12-22.15:36:13
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> > The call to PySequence_GetItem() may be expensive, and we have to drop
> > the result if an OverflowError is raised after the call.

> You do realize that this error will be very rare and therefore inconsequential.

The real question is: why would you call the iterator for a new value if it will be discarded anyway ? I think it could be very misleading to see  _getitem__ being called and have an OverflowError being raised afterward.
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