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-rw-r--r--Objects/bytearrayobject.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
index 31b5804871..e31b7d5fdf 100644
--- a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
@@ -55,10 +55,9 @@ _getbytevalue(PyObject* arg, int *value)
face_value = PyLong_AsLong(index);
Py_DECREF(index);
}
- if (face_value == -1 && PyErr_Occurred())
- return 0;
if (face_value < 0 || face_value >= 256) {
+ /* this includes the OverflowError in case the long is too large */
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "byte must be in range(0, 256)");
return 0;
}