Change int() so that passing a string, unicode, float or long argument

that is outside the integer range no longer raises OverflowError, but
returns a long object instead.

This fixes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/635115

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/api/abstract.tex b/Doc/api/abstract.tex
index 6bf96b2..c5939b2 100644
--- a/Doc/api/abstract.tex
+++ b/Doc/api/abstract.tex
@@ -650,8 +650,9 @@ determination.
 
 \begin{cfuncdesc}{PyObject*}{PyNumber_Int}{PyObject *o}
   Returns the \var{o} converted to an integer object on success, or
-  \NULL{} on failure.  This is the equivalent of the Python expression
-  \samp{int(\var{o})}.\bifuncindex{int}
+  \NULL{} on failure.  If the argument is outside the integer range
+  a long object will be returned instead. This is the equivalent
+  of the Python expression \samp{int(\var{o})}.\bifuncindex{int}
 \end{cfuncdesc}
 
 \begin{cfuncdesc}{PyObject*}{PyNumber_Long}{PyObject *o}