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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2005-09-20 18:49:54 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2005-09-20 18:49:54 (GMT)
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- On 64-bit platforms, when __len__() returns a value that cannot be
represented as a C int, raise OverflowError. (Forward port from 2.4.2; the patch to classobject.c was already in but needed a correction in the error message text.)
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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
Core and builtins
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+- On 64-bit platforms, when __len__() returns a value that cannot be
+ represented as a C int, raise OverflowError.
+
- test__locale is skipped on OS X < 10.4 (only partial locale support is
present).