On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did anyone come up with a fix for these? > > It's true that OverflowError and MemoryError are returned pretty > randomly when we detect that an allocation is not going to fit. I > think MemoryError is better though, so perhaps those uses of > OverflowError should be fixed. I doubt that there are any apps (except > unit tests for this specific feature) that depend on such specific > errors.
+1 OverflowErrors should probably by reserved for numeric overflows. -- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson "There's no place like 127.0.0.1." _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
