[PyQt] PyQt and integer overflows

[Florian Bruhin]

Hi,

I think the exception PyQt prints when passing an integer value which
is too big for the underlying C function is rather confusing:

    >>> from PyQt5.QtCore import QSize
    >>> QSize(2**64, 0)
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    TypeError: arguments did not match any overloaded call:
      [...]
      QSize(int, int): argument 1 has unexpected type 'int'

I think if possible it should detect the *type* is in fact correct,
and raise an OverflowError or so instead.

Also, how can I detect what the largest value is I can safely pass in?
It seems to be different on my Windows and Linux system (both 64 bit
though). On Windows, 2**32 / 2 - 1 is the largest value, on Linux
2**64 instead. I tried using struct to get the size of an int, but
that's the same on both platforms:

    >>> struct.calcsize('@i') * 8
    >>> 32

Florian

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