[issue13496] bisect module: Overflow at index computation

[Tim Peters]

Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> added the comment:

FWIW, I doubt there's a real issue here.  Objects in Python consume a lot more than a byte or two of memory, so the index range of a Python list is generally a lot less than ssize_t allows for.  In other words, quantify "large" in "large arrays".  How large can a Python list actually be, relative to ssize_t?  Similar reasoning accounts for why we never worry about overflow when mucking with refcounts:  the size of a refcount member  exceeds the maximum number of references that could exist.

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