Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > There's also the minor practical inconvenience of having to remember to catch > OverflowError *and* ValueError in try: .. except: constructs.
And MemoryError (for big decimals). Might be the best solution would be raising an exception which subclasses both ValueError and OverflowError. Or make OverflowError to be subclass of ValueError. ---------- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16483> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
