[Python-Dev] struct module: add OverflowErrors now?

[Aahz]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004, Armin Rigo wrote:
> 
> The struct module is too lazy in checking for overflows (it only
> checks some cases on some architectures).  See patch #1038854.  The
> question is: can we make it strict this late in the 2.4 release
> process?  This *will* break some user code; the proof is that it
> breaks some standard library code, e.g. gzip.py, which uses a signed
> typecode when it really means an unsigned one.

+1 on fixing it now, assuming you can find an appropriate reviewer.
Bugfixing is allowed during beta, and relying on this behavior is a bug.
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