[Python-checkins] python/nondist/peps pep-0237.txt,1.17,1.18

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Update of /cvsroot/python/python/nondist/peps
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv20235/peps

Modified Files:
	pep-0237.txt 
Log Message:
Note that Python stopped generating OverflowWarning in 2.4, a release
after that was planned to occur.


Index: pep-0237.txt
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/nondist/peps/pep-0237.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.17
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -d -r1.17 -r1.18
--- pep-0237.txt	2 Dec 2003 01:22:50 -0000	1.17
+++ pep-0237.txt	25 Aug 2004 01:57:46 -0000	1.18
@@ -236,7 +236,13 @@
 
     Here are the rules that guide warnings generated in situations
     that currently raise OverflowError.  This applies to transition
-    phase A.
+    phase A.  Historical note:  despite that phase A was completed in
+    Python 2.2, and phase B0 in Python 2.3, nobody noticed that
+    OverflowWarning was still generated in Python 2.3.  It was finally
+    disabled in Python 2.4.  The Python builtin OverflowWarning, and
+    the corresponding C API PyExc_OverflowWarning, are no longer
+    generated or used in Python 2.4, but will remain for the (unlikely)
+    case of user code until Python 2.5.
 
     - A new warning category is introduced, OverflowWarning.  This is
       a built-in name.