commit 59a1b2f732e9c672ec03deb965bd682706d1ef24
author Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Mon Jun 07 22:31:26 2010 +0000
committer Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Mon Jun 07 22:31:26 2010 +0000
tree 9cbe639f518af04965db43b22dabf8d18c88883f
parent 5b92772e242f3302f11b1d6e3d451370b98e01d5

Merged revisions 81820 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r81820 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-07 17:23:23 -0500 (Mon, 07 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  correctly overflow when indexes are too large
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Lib/test/test_unicode.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index 4ac0712..10714c8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -681,6 +681,9 @@
         self.assertRaises(IndexError, "{:}".format)
         self.assertRaises(IndexError, "{:s}".format)
         self.assertRaises(IndexError, "{}".format)
+        big = "23098475029384702983476098230754973209482573"
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, ("{" + big + "}").format)
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, ("{[" + big + "]}").format, [0])
 
         # issue 6089
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, "{0[0]x}".format, [None])