Paul Boddie <p...@boddie.org.uk> added the comment: I don't disagree that OverflowError describes what's happening, but the need to convert to an int in the first place is a detail of the machine - you'd have to know that this is a limitation of whatever internal "protocol" CPython implements - not a description of the cause of the error, which is what the old-style message describes quite clearly.
On the subject of whether __len__ should be able to return long integers, GvR seems to like the idea (from the related bug mentioned earlier): http://bugs.python.org/issue2690#msg70525 I'll take a closer look at the mechanisms for error reporting around this situation later, but my assertion is that the new-style message isn't as helpful as the old-style one. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7942> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
