Josh Rosenberg <shadowranger+pyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:
"than" is correct; "giving up" in this context would mean "not even trying to allocate the memory and just preemptively raising OverflowError, like non-integer numeric types with limited ranges". Rather than giving up that way, it chooses to try to allocate the huge integer and raises a MemoryError only if that fails. ---------- nosy: +josh.r _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34601> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
