max length of a python program

[Gary Herron]

On Thursday 21 August 2003 06:13 am, Ragu wrote:
> Is there a limit to the # of lines that can be in a Python program?


Log ago (perhaps version 1.2?) there was a limit of 16383 lines.  The
code that generated line numbers crapped out when it overflowed the 16
bits used to hold it.  I think I remember Guido being surprised when I
pointed this out -- although I don't know if the surprise was at the
existance of the limit or at the idea of a program that long.  (It was
an automatically genereted program used to create some data structure
-- I hardly remember anymore what I was doing -- but it was one of my
first Python programs and it was a stupid idea -- soon remedied.)

I think the limit was removed soon after that.