diff --git a/Lib/test/test_builtin.py b/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
index dd718bf..3956214 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
@@ -964,6 +964,12 @@
         # (smaller floats still accepted, but deprecated)
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, range, 1e100, 1e101, 1e101)
 
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, range, 0, "spam")
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, range, 0, 42, "spam")
+
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, range, -sys.maxint, sys.maxint)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, range, 0, 2*sys.maxint)
+
     def test_input_and_raw_input(self):
         self.write_testfile()
         fp = open(TESTFN, 'r')