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Author tim.peters
Recipients Voo, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, tim.peters
Date 2011-11-28.23:45:41
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FWIW, I doubt there's a real issue here.  Objects in Python consume a lot more than a byte or two of memory, so the index range of a Python list is generally a lot less than ssize_t allows for.  In other words, quantify "large" in "large arrays".  How large can a Python list actually be, relative to ssize_t?  Similar reasoning accounts for why we never worry about overflow when mucking with refcounts:  the size of a refcount member  exceeds the maximum number of references that could exist.
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2011-11-28 23:45:42tim.peterssetrecipients: + tim.peters, rhettinger, mark.dickinson, Voo
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