From: Mark Dickinson Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 18:22:06 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Merged revisions 79852 via svnmerge from X-Git-Tag: v3.2a1~1211 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=505add3ac996b6b4ff47f753fb454ca0d4edad40;p=python Merged revisions 79852 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ 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. ........ --- 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: