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On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:04:56 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt
<ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> declaimed the following in
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> 
> So this seems to confirm that it's a 32-bit underflow while preparing the 
> argument for win32's Sleep() function.
> 
> That said, an "IOError" is a bit better but still leaves room for 
> improvement. I'll take this to the developers mailinglist and see if they 
> consider the behaviour a bug. At the very least the docs are bad, I would 
> say.
> 
	"RuntimeError" or "OSError" would seem to be better than "IOError";
though having the Python runtime incorporate a max(delay, 0) behind the
scenes would prevent both OS type behaviors.

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