based upon a suggestion in c.l.py, this slight expansion of the

OverflowError message seems reasonable.

diff --git a/Objects/longobject.c b/Objects/longobject.c
index 38ef89c96283ea5d43d8fdaec28c91be557b42e4..7c4f75dc6e46cbaced413377cb402168f0fb9a0a 100644 (file)
--- a/Objects/longobject.c
+++ b/Objects/longobject.c
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ PyLong_AsLong(PyObject *vv)
 
  overflow:
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError,
-                       "long int too large to convert");
+                       "long int too large to convert to int");
        return -1;
 }