Can Python do shopping cart?

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Paul Rubin wrote:
> Tim Wintle <tim.wintle at teamrubber.com> writes:
>> Surely you can address an infinite amount of storage using infinite
>> length integers and a wrapper to files on disk - then it's just your
>> OS's limits that hold it back - so python is turing/register complete.
> 
> Python doesn't have infinite length integers.  It has long integers,
> but their size is bounded by the size of the pointers inside Python,
> normally 32 or 64 bits.
> 
You could say that Python _theoretically_ has infinite length integers,
but all the current _implementations_ impose a limit.