clarify the 4300-digit limit on int-str conversion (GH-100175)

(cherry picked from commit 935ef593211a627526b2b869ce1fc2a5e67e6cdd)

Co-authored-by: Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 03264ebbeab90d1f4eca452f6ca5fcf761114ac3..426eec62056635bd90205f736c7230a062f486b5 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -5493,7 +5493,7 @@ When an operation would exceed the limit, a :exc:`ValueError` is raised:
    >>> _ = int('2' * 5432)
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
-   ValueError: Exceeds the limit (4300) for integer string conversion: value has 5432 digits; use sys.set_int_max_str_digits() to increase the limit.
+   ValueError: Exceeds the limit (4300 digits) for integer string conversion: value has 5432 digits; use sys.set_int_max_str_digits() to increase the limit.
    >>> i = int('2' * 4300)
    >>> len(str(i))
    4300
@@ -5501,7 +5501,7 @@ When an operation would exceed the limit, a :exc:`ValueError` is raised:
    >>> len(str(i_squared))
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
-   ValueError: Exceeds the limit (4300) for integer string conversion: value has 8599 digits; use sys.set_int_max_str_digits() to increase the limit.
+   ValueError: Exceeds the limit (4300 digits) for integer string conversion: value has 8599 digits; use sys.set_int_max_str_digits() to increase the limit.
    >>> len(hex(i_squared))
    7144
    >>> assert int(hex(i_squared), base=16) == i*i  # Hexadecimal is unlimited.

diff --git a/Objects/longobject.c b/Objects/longobject.c
index e93461af72754c500ddfa1aebf274a951146a550..1b289d5468bd23c75e1f1a98eff44c805c9e8482 100644 (file)
--- a/Objects/longobject.c
+++ b/Objects/longobject.c
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ medium_value(PyLongObject *x)
 #define IS_SMALL_INT(ival) (-_PY_NSMALLNEGINTS <= (ival) && (ival) < _PY_NSMALLPOSINTS)
 #define IS_SMALL_UINT(ival) ((ival) < _PY_NSMALLPOSINTS)
 
-#define _MAX_STR_DIGITS_ERROR_FMT_TO_INT "Exceeds the limit (%d) for integer string conversion: value has %zd digits; use sys.set_int_max_str_digits() to increase the limit"
-#define _MAX_STR_DIGITS_ERROR_FMT_TO_STR "Exceeds the limit (%d) for integer string conversion; use sys.set_int_max_str_digits() to increase the limit"
+#define _MAX_STR_DIGITS_ERROR_FMT_TO_INT "Exceeds the limit (%d digits) for integer string conversion: value has %zd digits; use sys.set_int_max_str_digits() to increase the limit"
+#define _MAX_STR_DIGITS_ERROR_FMT_TO_STR "Exceeds the limit (%d digits) for integer string conversion; use sys.set_int_max_str_digits() to increase the limit"
 
 static inline void
 _Py_DECREF_INT(PyLongObject *op)