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  r80125 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-16 17:35:32 -0500 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 13 lines

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    r80123 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-16 17:24:16 -0500 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 1 line

    bytearray -> type2test
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    r80124 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-16 17:25:57 -0500 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 1 line

    fix typo
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  r80128 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-16 17:51:37 -0500 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 9 lines

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    r80126 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-16 17:35:38 -0500 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 1 line

    have a clear error when passing something > sys.maxsize to bytearray
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  r80130 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-16 18:00:53 -0500 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 9 lines

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    r80129 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-16 17:52:44 -0500 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 1 line

    tiny simplification
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diff --git a/Objects/bytesobject.c b/Objects/bytesobject.c
index 6584462..36d71c0 100644
--- a/Objects/bytesobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytesobject.c
@@ -2949,15 +2949,17 @@
 	}
 
 	/* Is it an int? */
-	size = PyNumber_AsSsize_t(x, PyExc_ValueError);
+	size = PyNumber_AsSsize_t(x, PyExc_OverflowError);
 	if (size == -1 && PyErr_Occurred()) {
+		if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_OverflowError))
+			return NULL;
 		PyErr_Clear();
 	}
+	else if (size < 0) {
+		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "negative count");
+		return NULL;
+	}
 	else {
-		if (size < 0) {
-			PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "negative count");
-			return NULL;
-		}
 		new = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(NULL, size);
 		if (new == NULL) {
 			return NULL;