[New-bugs-announce] [issue2723] Truncate __len__() at sys.maxsize

[Alexander Belopolsky]

New submission from Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net>:

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> 
wrote:
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>  Let's also fix __len__() so that it returns sys.{maxint,maxsize} when
>  the result doesn't fit in a Py_ssize_t.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-April/013343.html

With attached patch given

class x:
    def __len__(self):
        return 2**100

len(x()) and len(range(2**100)) will return sys.maxsize.

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components: Interpreter Core
files: len.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 65989
nosy: belopolsky
severity: normal
status: open
title: Truncate __len__() at sys.maxsize
versions: Python 3.0
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10143/len.diff

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