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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-04-06 18:22:06 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-04-06 18:22:06 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r79852 | mark.dickinson | 2010-04-06 19:20:11 +0100 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 1 line Issue #8259: Clarify that there's an upper bound on the right-hand operand of a shift operator. ........
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@@ -914,6 +914,9 @@ the left or right by the number of bits given by the second argument.
A right shift by *n* bits is defined as division by ``pow(2,n)``. A left shift
by *n* bits is defined as multiplication with ``pow(2,n)``.
+.. note:: In the current implementation, the right-hand operand is required
+ to be at most :attr:`sys.maxsize`. If the right-hand operand is larger than
+ :attr:`sys.maxsize` an :exc:`OverflowError` exception is raised.
.. _bitwise: