[issue2488] Backport sys.maxsize to Python 2.6

[Ryan Freckleton]

Ryan Freckleton <ryan.freckleton at gmail.com> added the comment:

Here's a patch including docstring and NEWS update for this backport.

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keywords: +patch
nosy: +ryan.freckleton
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file9859/patch.diff

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