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 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 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". ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue40388> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com