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r79852 | mark.dickinson | 2010-04-06 19:20:11 +0100 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 1 line
Issue #8259: Clarify that there's an upper bound on the right-hand operand of a shift operator.
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
index bb25956..07647b3 100644
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@@ -914,6 +914,9 @@
A right shift by *n* bits is defined as division by ``pow(2,n)``. A left shift
by *n* bits is defined as multiplication with ``pow(2,n)``.
+.. note:: In the current implementation, the right-hand operand is required
+ to be at most :attr:`sys.maxsize`. If the right-hand operand is larger than
+ :attr:`sys.maxsize` an :exc:`OverflowError` exception is raised.
.. _bitwise: