diff --git a/Lib/test/test_builtin.py b/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
index 5912e85e8d5..dd718bf93dc 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
@@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ def test_range(self):
 
         # Reject floats when it would require PyLongs to represent.
         # (smaller floats still accepted, but deprecated)
-        self.assertRaises(ValueError, range, 1e100, 1e101, 1e101)
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, range, 1e100, 1e101, 1e101)
 
     def test_input_and_raw_input(self):
         self.write_testfile()