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Author pitrou
Recipients ajaksu2, gvanrossum, pitrou
Date 2008-08-14.21:29:12
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> Except that it wasn't an infinite loop in 2.5 and isn't in trunk: it
> terminates on overflower's except.

That's because the stated behaviour is only implemented in 3.0 and not
in 2.x. I'm not sure what motivated it, but you are the first one to
complain about it. If you think it is a regression, I think you should
open a thread on the python-dev mailing-list about it.
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