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@@ -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