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diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index 095a238..35925a0 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -2011,6 +2011,14 @@ through the container; for mappings, :meth:`__iter__` should be the same as :meth:`__bool__` method and whose :meth:`__len__` method returns zero is considered to be false in a Boolean context. + .. impl-detail:: + + In CPython, the length is required to be at most :attr:`sys.maxsize`. + If the length is larger than :attr:`!sys.maxsize` some features (such as + :func:`len`) may raise :exc:`OverflowError`. To prevent raising + :exc:`!OverflowError` by truth value testing, an object must define a + :meth:`__bool__` method. + .. method:: object.__length_hint__(self) @@ -2021,6 +2029,7 @@ through the container; for mappings, :meth:`__iter__` should be the same as .. versionadded:: 3.4 + .. note:: Slicing is done exclusively with the following three methods. A call like :: |