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  r81823 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-07 17:31:26 -0500 (Mon, 07 Jun 2010) | 9 lines

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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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  r81835 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-08 09:57:22 -0500 (Tue, 08 Jun 2010) | 9 lines

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    r81834 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-08 09:53:29 -0500 (Tue, 08 Jun 2010) | 1 line

    kill extra word
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- In the str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are too
+  large.
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 - Issue #8766: Initialize _warnings module before importing the first module.
   Fix a crash if an empty directory called "encodings" exists in sys.path.