Message1843

I guess this can be considered the "correct" behaviour for bugward compatibility with CPython 2.2.

Python 2.2.3 (#1, Mar  4 2007, 00:49:18)
[GCC 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk)] on linux2
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>>> int(1e10)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OverflowError: float too large to convert

Was fixed in CPython 2.3 (returns 10000000000L) and 3.0 (returns 10000000000, without the funny "L" at the end) as part of PEP 237: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0237/