On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've come across situations where len() raising an exception was more > inconvenient than returning a truncated value (e.g. when printing).
In those cases, shouldn't you be explicit, catch the overflow exception, and then use sys.maxsize? > But I didn't find a rationale. I'm sure it was PBP though. What's PBP? (A search only turns up a bicycle race. :)) -- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
