[Tutor] a question about maxint

[Mark Lawrence]

On 02/10/2012 17:55, Katya Stolpovskaya wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have this error:
>
>>>> from sys import *
>>>> maxint
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<pyshell#4>", line 1, in <module>
> maxint
> NameError: name 'maxint' is not defined
>
>
> What does it mean and how to deal with it?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Katya
>
>
>
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It means exactly what it says.  Your version of Python doesn't have 
maxint defined in the built-in sys module.  I'd hazard a guess that 
you're using a Python 3 version in which case you have maxsize defined 
instead of maxint.

As a slight aside, using the import that way is usually considered bad 
style.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.