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| author | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2008-05-20 08:11:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2008-05-20 08:11:19 (GMT) |
| commit | 4dd019fde36b53b30e69a2ce9cee3f2f9f25c2a6 (patch) | |
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Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 4f6416f..390f73d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -521,6 +521,11 @@ always available. is at least 2\*\*31-1. The largest negative integer is ``-maxint-1`` --- the asymmetry results from the use of 2's complement binary arithmetic. +.. data:: maxsize + + The largest positive integer supported by the platform's Py_ssize_t type, + and thus the maximum size lists, strings, dicts, and many other containers + can have. .. data:: maxunicode |