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@@ -1720,6 +1720,11 @@ Changes in the Python API
informative :exc:`ValueError` rather than the previous more mysterious
:exc:`AttributeError` (:issue:`9177`).
+* :meth:`slice.indices` no longer produces an :exc:`OverflowError` for huge
+ values. As a consequence of this fix, :meth:`slice.indices` now raises a
+ :exc:`ValueError` if given a negative length; previously it returned nonsense
+ values (:issue:`14794`).
+
Changes in the C API
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