Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I suspect that the OP is doing something like `random.choice(range(10**40))`:
Python 3.8.2 (default, Feb 27 2020, 19:56:42)
[Clang 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4)] on darwin
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>>> import random
>>> random.choice(range(10**40))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/random.py",
line 288, in choice
i = self._randbelow(len(seq))
OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C ssize_t
The advice in this case would be to use something like random.randrange(10**40)
instead.
The actual bug here, if there is a bug, has nothing to do with random, but
instead has to do with "virtual" sequences whose length exceeds 2**63 - 1.
There are other issues in the tracker for this, for example issue 12159.
I suggest closing as "not a bug".
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nosy: +mark.dickinson
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