[issue2723] Truncate __len__() at sys.maxsize

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Gregory P. Smith
<report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
..
> But I must've missed something, why can't __len__ return the correct
> value?

The problem is the C signature of the sq_length slot:

typedef Py_ssize_t (*lenfunc)(PyObject *);

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