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Issue #21559: Add alternative (historical) reason for OverflowError.

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Terry Jan Reedy 2014-06-16 03:31:00 -04:00
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@ -274,9 +274,10 @@ The following exceptions are the exceptions that are usually raised.
Raised when the result of an arithmetic operation is too large to be
represented. This cannot occur for integers (which would rather raise
:exc:`MemoryError` than give up). Because of the lack of standardization of
floating point exception handling in C, most floating point operations also
aren't checked.
:exc:`MemoryError` than give up). However, for historical reasons,
OverflowError is sometimes raised for integers that are outside a required
range. Because of the lack of standardization of floating point exception
handling in C, most floating point operations are not checked.
.. exception:: ReferenceError