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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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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
   when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
   gets ignored.
 
+- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when either indexes to
+  arguments are too large.
+
 - Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
   and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8