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On 23 cze 2013, at 21:07, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
The most annoying thing here is that OverflowError doesn't subclass
ValueError.
My intuition would rather make OverflowError subclass RuntimeError. Am I wrong?
That means I support Serhiy's point that %c would be less surprising raising a ValueError. Backwards compatibility is an unfortunate blocker here, I suppose.