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

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Mark Dickinson 2010-04-06 18:20:11 +00:00
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@ -1000,6 +1000,9 @@ 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)``. Negative shift
counts raise a :exc:`ValueError` exception.
.. 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: