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| author | Zac Hatfield-Dodds <Zac-HD@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-01-12 09:04:14 (GMT) |
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| committer | Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org> | 2020-01-12 09:04:14 (GMT) |
| commit | d7c7adde003ddca5cbe4fc47cf09464ab95a066e (patch) | |
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bpo-12159: Document sys.maxsize limit in len() function reference (GH-17934)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index dc3391f..cc48597 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -892,6 +892,11 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. sequence (such as a string, bytes, tuple, list, or range) or a collection (such as a dictionary, set, or frozen set). + .. impl-detail:: + + ``len`` raises :exc:`OverflowError` on lengths larger than + :data:`sys.maxsize`, such as :class:`range(2 ** 100) <range>`. + .. _func-list: .. class:: list([iterable]) |