On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Eh, brain explosion from typing too late at night. The experiment I > actually *meant* to try was: > > >>> x = range(0, 2**33, 2) > >>> len(x) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C ssize_t > >>> x[0] > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C ssize_t > > > The error message in the latter case is thoroughly confusing (although it > is now clearer what is causing it). > Agreed. See also the discussion over at http://bugs.python.org/issue2690 Mark
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