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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
index d83af83..fc3dd77 100644
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@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
- Issue #8837: Remove "O?" format of PyArg_Parse*() functions. The format is no
used anymore and it was never documented.
+- In the str.format(), raise a ValueError when either indexes to arguments are
+ too large.
+
- Issue #2844: Make int('42', n) consistently raise ValueError for
invalid integers n (including n = -909).