Thomas Wouters wrote: > The removal of classic slices already added sys.maxsize, which is the max of > Py_ssize_t. Great. If I'm not mistaken the max of Py_ssize_t should be 2**31-1 on a 32bit system and 2**63-1 on a 64bit system, even on Win x64 and IA-64. Guido, it's your call. Should sys.maxint go? Christian