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-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--Modules/_io/textio.c2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3df8e95..25c1f3c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a
+ TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError.
+
- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
if the process has only one pipe.
diff --git a/Modules/_io/textio.c b/Modules/_io/textio.c
index 73d83a1..abdbeb7 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/textio.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/textio.c
@@ -2556,7 +2556,7 @@ textiowrapper_chunk_size_set(textio *self, PyObject *arg, void *context)
{
Py_ssize_t n;
CHECK_INITIALIZED_INT(self);
- n = PyNumber_AsSsize_t(arg, PyExc_TypeError);
+ n = PyNumber_AsSsize_t(arg, PyExc_ValueError);
if (n == -1 && PyErr_Occurred())
return -1;
if (n <= 0) {