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Author	terry.reedy
Recipients	benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, lemburg, mark.dickinson, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date	2012-11-02.21:14:48
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<1351890888.86.0.439679872579.issue16335@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I don't know what to make of this, but... Python 3.3.0 (v3.3.0:bd8afb90ebf2, Sep 29 2012, 10:57:17) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Win7 pro, 24 gb mem >>> x=(b'\\N{WHITE SMILING FACE' + b'x' * 2**32 + b'}') >>> len(x) 4294967318 >>> y=x.decode('unicode-escape') >>> len(y) 1 >>> y '☺'

I don't know what to make of this, but...
Python 3.3.0 (v3.3.0:bd8afb90ebf2, Sep 29 2012, 10:57:17) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Win7 pro, 24 gb mem

>>> x=(b'\\N{WHITE SMILING FACE' + b'x' * 2**32 + b'}')
>>> len(x)
4294967318
>>> y=x.decode('unicode-escape')
>>> len(y)
1
>>> y
'☺'

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-11-02 21:14:48	terry.reedy	set	recipients: + terry.reedy, lemburg, mark.dickinson, pitrou, vstinner, benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, serhiy.storchaka
2012-11-02 21:14:48	terry.reedy	set	messageid: <1351890888.86.0.439679872579.issue16335@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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