On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
That's what I did *after* a big run crashed. :-( > > 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. :)) Practicality Beats Purity, from the zen of Python. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
