[New-bugs-announce] [issue45044] Agreeing on error raised by large repeat value for sequences

[Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard]

New submission from Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard <jfh at imijmi.eu>:

There's currently a slight disagreement between some of the sequences about what is raised when the value for `repeat` is too large. 

Currently, `str` and `bytes` raise an `OverflowError` while `bytearray`, `tuple`, `list` and `deque` raise a `MemoryError`.

To make things more confusing, if we exercise a different path not currently caught by the check, both `str` and `bytes` raise `MemoryError`s:

>>> b'abc' * maxsize
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OverflowError: repeated bytes are too long
>>> b'a' * maxsize
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
MemoryError

Not sure what the original rationale for having these `OverflowError`s was but, should we change them to `MemoryError`s?

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messages: 400527
nosy: Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Agreeing on error raised by large repeat value for sequences
type: behavior

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