[Python-Dev] negative PyLong integer -> unsigned integer, TypeError or OverflowError?
Mark Dickinson
dickinsm at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 22:25:26 CET 2009
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
> At Objects/longobject.c, you should see that in almost all cases
> OverflowError is raised when a unsigned integral is requested from a
> negative PyLong. However, See this one:
> [...]
> if (!is_signed) {
> PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
> "can't convert negative long to unsigned");
> return -1;
> }
I agree that TypeError seems wrong here.
Please could you file a bug report at bugs.python.org?
Mark
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