[Python-ideas] universal set object for use in set manipulation

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Fri Jul 24 00:45:05 CEST 2009


Georg Brandl <g.brandl at ...> writes:
> Steven D'Aprano schrieb:
> > (2) What is len(set.universal())?
> 
> Since it was apparently decided that len() can "lie", sys.maxsize would be
> a nice value.  Otherwise, an exception.

I don't that was ever decided. Guido just suggested it.







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