In response to one particular complaint on edu-sig, change some error
messages from "OverflowError: integer pow()" to "OverflowError:
integer exponentiation". (Not that this takes care of the complaint
in general that the error messages could be greatly improved. :-)
diff --git a/Objects/intobject.c b/Objects/intobject.c
index 00fdf82..4f408cf 100644
--- a/Objects/intobject.c
+++ b/Objects/intobject.c
@@ -577,14 +577,14 @@
if (temp == 0)
break; /* Avoid ix / 0 */
if (ix / temp != prev)
- return err_ovf("integer pow()");
+ return err_ovf("integer exponentiation");
}
iw >>= 1; /* Shift exponent down by 1 bit */
if (iw==0) break;
prev = temp;
temp *= temp; /* Square the value of temp */
if (prev!=0 && temp/prev!=prev)
- return err_ovf("integer pow()");
+ return err_ovf("integer exponentiation");
if (iz) {
/* If we did a multiplication, perform a modulo */
ix = ix % iz;
@@ -630,7 +630,7 @@
if (iv == 0)
break; /* 0 to some power -- avoid ix / 0 */
if (ix / iv != prev)
- return err_ovf("integer pow()");
+ return err_ovf("integer exponentiation");
}
return PyInt_FromLong(ix);
#endif