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Author benjamin.peterson
Recipients Arfrever, benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, pkt, python-dev, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date 2015-03-02.20:54:26
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True, but that could change and is not true in Python 2. I suppose we
could revert the change and add a static assertion.
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015, at 14:24, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
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> Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:
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> Because isize is the size of real PyUnicode object. It's maximal value is
> PY_SSIZE_T_MAX - sizeof(PyASCIIObject) - 1.
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