[issue45044] Agreeing on error raised by large repeat value for sequences

2021-08-29 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger added the comment: These should be left as they are because they indicate different problems and solutions. The Overflow errors are dependent on PY_SSIZE_T_MAX. They indicate the that size is to big to store in a variable. Changing from a 32-bit build to a 64-bit build

[issue45044] Agreeing on error raised by large repeat value for sequences

2021-08-29 Thread Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard
New submission from Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard : There's currently a slight disagreement between some of the sequences about what is raised when the value for `repeat` is too large. Currently, `str` and `bytes` raise an `OverflowError` while `bytearray`, `tuple`, `list` and `deque` raise a