Integer literal overflow error with -2147483648 but not with 0x80 000000 ?

[Mike Fletcher]

Just wondering if there's a reason for this (doesn't cause a problem for me,
just seems strange)...

PythonWin 1.5.2 (#0, Apr 13 1999, 10:51:12) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
Portions Copyright 1994-1999 Mark Hammond (MHammond at skippinet.com.au)
>>> 0x80000000
-2147483648
>>> -2147483648
Traceback (innermost last):
OverflowError: integer literal too large
>>> 

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