On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
[1] Based on empirical evidence that Python supports names with length at least up to one million characters long, and assuming that each character can be an ASCII letter, digit or underscore.
The specification *does* state unlimited length: http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/ref/identifiers.html Though practicality beats purity. -W -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
