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Author martin.panter
Recipients martin.panter, socketpair
Date 2016-07-28.04:59:08
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I don’t like special values. A length of minus one makes no sense, so should trigger an exception, not some unexpected behaviour. A different data type like None would be a bit better.

But I’m not sure this would be widely used. If you really need it you could calculate the number of bytes needed via value.bit_length().
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