Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

> I made the
> decision to raise a ValueError decision because __contains__ of both
> bytes and bytearray raise a ValueError when passed an integer not in
> range(0, 256).

That sounds reasonable. OverflowError would have been another choice, but I 
agree that consistency with __contains__ is sensible.

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