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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2010-05-27 21:29:59 +0000
committerAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2010-05-27 21:29:59 +0000
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parentIssue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting (diff)
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@@ -2354,6 +2354,12 @@ that may require changes to your code:
In the standard library:
+* Operations with :class:`datetime` instances that resulted in a year
+ falling outside the supported range didn't always raise
+ :exc:`OverflowError`. Such errors are now checked more carefully
+ and will now raise the exception. (Reported by Mark Leander, patch
+ by Anand B. Pillai and Alexander Belopolsky; :issue:`7150`.)
+
* When using :class:`Decimal` instances with a string's
:meth:`format` method, the default alignment was previously
left-alignment. This has been changed to right-alignment, which might