New submission from Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard <j...@imijmi.eu>:
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 `MemoryError`. To make things more confusing, if we exercise a different path not currently caught by the check, both `str` and `bytes` raise `MemoryError`s: >>> b'abc' * maxsize Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: repeated bytes are too long >>> b'a' * maxsize Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> MemoryError Not sure what the original rationale for having these `OverflowError`s was but, should we change them to `MemoryError`s? ---------- messages: 400527 nosy: Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Agreeing on error raised by large repeat value for sequences type: behavior _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue45044> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
