[Fred Drake, on returning sys.maxint from __len__ if you don't know
the length, which Tim strongly advises against]
> Interesting. I seem to remember this coming from Guido several times
> in discussions.
Not me. Googling on
site:mail.python.org maxint __len__ guido
finds 9 hits, all irrelevant. There's no instance of returning
sys.maxint from a __len__ method in the Python codebase; there are
instances of returning small constants.
> The Python community needs to settle on a recommendation for this and
> document it in the Language Reference.
If you don't/can't know the length, return "a typical" size, or leave
__len__() undefined (in which latter case CPython will usually guess
8). As the code example I gave before showed, returning sys.maxint
creates needless problems.
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