Integer literal overflow error with -2147483648 but not with 0x80000000 ?

[Adrian Eyre]

> >>> 0x80000000
> -2147483648
> >>> -2147483648
> Traceback (innermost last):
> OverflowError: integer literal too large

I'm guessing this is because Python parses it as:

-(2147483648)

and can't evaluate 2147483648 before making it negative.

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