[New-bugs-announce] [issue21559] OverflowError should not happen for integer operations

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>From the documentation at https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/exceptions.html#OverflowError all integer operations should not throw OverflowError no matter what. However, there are so many issues here that describe library functions and built-in functions doing exactly that (just search this website for OverflowError).
This might cause an expected uncaught exception that the cause cannot be deduced after reading the documentation.
There are 2 ways to fix this: either change the documentation, or change something in the core of the interpreter.
Note: I don't know what versions of python this affects, but I have tested this on python 3.4.0 on windows. (the version that was downloadable from www.python.org/downloads/)

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation, Interpreter Core
messages: 218957
nosy: docs at python, theme
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: OverflowError should not happen for integer operations
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.4

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