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[Jacek Generowicz]

Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:

> sys.maxint is the largest positive platform C long, and containers
> in Python can't have more elements than the largest positive
> platform C int.  On a 32-bit box, you can't even get close to the
> latter (let alone the former), since at least 4*len(list) bytes are
> needed just to store pointers to list's elements -- you run out of
> address space.
> 
> On 64-bit boxes we'll *eventually* regret that the # of container elements
> is limited to the largest positive C int, but I don't believe that's popped
> up in real life yet.

But won't sys.maxint be correspondingly bigger on 64-bit boxes ?