Feb. 15, 2001
3:07 a.m.
[Ka-Ping Yee]
... The only exceptions that don't currently conform, as far as i know, have to do with invalid literals.
Pretty much, but nothing's *that* easy. Other examples: + If there are too many nested blocks, it raises SystemError(!). + MemoryError is raised if a dotted name is too long. + OverflowError is raised if a string is too long. Note that those don't have to do with syntax, they're arbitrary implementation limits. So that's the rule: raise SystemError if something is bigger than 20 MemoryError if it's bigger than 1000 OverflowError if it's bigger than an int Couldn't be clearer <wink>. + SystemErrors are raised in many other places in the role of internal assertions failing. Those needn't be changed.