[Python-Dev] SyntaxError for illegal literals

[Greg Ewing]

Guido:

> I still find it hard to flag overflow
> errors as syntax errors, especially since overflow is platform
> defined.

How about introducing the following hierarchy:

  CompileTimeError
    SyntaxError
    LiteralRangeError

LiteralRangeError could inherit from ValueError as well
if you want.

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