Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > If we change something, I suggest to be consistent with lshift. I expect a > memory error on "1 << (1 << 1024)" (no unlimited loop before a global system > collapse please ;-))
I agree that left shift should raise an ValueError rather than OverflowError for large negative shifts. But is hard to handle large positive shifts. `1 << count` consumes `count*2/15` bytes of memory. There is a gap between the maximal value of bits represented as Py_ssize_t (PY_SSIZE_T_MAX) and the number of bits of maximal Python int (PY_SSIZE_T_MAX*15/2). _PyLong_NumBits() starves from the same issue. I think an OverflowError is appropriate here for denoting the platform and implementation limitation. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29816> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
