Mark Dickinson added the comment: Thinking about it, `ValueError` seems like the right exception type: nothing's actually overflowing, because we haven't even tried to do any computation. This is just a limitation of what `math.factorial` is prepared to accept as input (and perhaps that limitation should be documented).
Here's a patch. Bikeshedding about the exception type and the exception message is welcome. ---------- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file33961/huge_factorial_input.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20539> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
