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| author | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2010-04-06 18:22:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2010-04-06 18:22:06 +0000 |
| commit | 6d8f11b94af5fd2ec120c0ba7a5459d6ca1aca1a (patch) | |
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Merged revisions 79852 via svnmerge from
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r79852 | mark.dickinson | 2010-04-06 19:20:11 +0100 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 1 line
Issue #8259: Clarify that there's an upper bound on the right-hand operand of a shift operator.
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst index bb25956dbc..07647b3a34 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst @@ -914,6 +914,9 @@ the left or right by the number of bits given by the second argument. A right shift by *n* bits is defined as division by ``pow(2,n)``. A left shift by *n* bits is defined as multiplication with ``pow(2,n)``. +.. note:: In the current implementation, the right-hand operand is required + to be at most :attr:`sys.maxsize`. If the right-hand operand is larger than + :attr:`sys.maxsize` an :exc:`OverflowError` exception is raised. .. _bitwise: |