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  Issue #8259: Clarify that there's an upper bound on the right-hand operand of a shift operator.
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@ -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: