Armin Rigo wrote: > Hi, > > There is an oversight in the design of __index__() that only just > surfaced :-( It is responsible for the following behavior, on a 32-bit > machine with >= 2GB of RAM: > > >>> s = 'x' * (2**100) # works! > >>> len(s) > 2147483647 > > This is because PySequence_Repeat(v, w) works by applying w.__index__ in > order to call v->sq_repeat. However, __index__ is defined to clip the > result to fit in a Py_ssize_t.
Clipping the result sounds like it would *never* be a good idea. What was the rationale for that? It should throw an exception. -- David Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
