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On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:31:13 -0400, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> declaimed
the following:

>On 04/29/2015 10:16 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:

>
>>            raise ParameterError, 'Parameter has to be an int'
>>        if n < 0:
>
>Better:   if length < 0:          (since n is undefined)
>
>>            raise ValueError, 'Parameter should be greater or equal 2'

	Given the text in the exception, shouldn't that be

	if length < 2:
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