Can Python by design handle adress space larger than 2 GByte?

[Claudio Grondi]

> the string type uses the ob_size field to hold the string length, and
> ob_size is an integer:
>
> $ more Include/object.h
>     ...
>     int ob_size; /* Number of items in variable part */

If this is what you mean,

#define PyObject_VAR_HEAD  \
 PyObject_HEAD   \
 int ob_size; /* Number of items in variable part */

and if I understand it the proper way
(i.e. that all Python types are derived from Python objects)
also the unlimited size integers are limited to integers which
fit into 2 GByte memory, right?
And also a list or dictionary are not designed to have
more than 2 Giga of elements, etc.

So the question which still remains open is, can Python by design
handle adress space larger than 2 GByte?

I can't check it out myself beeing on a Windows system which
limits already a single process to this address space.
With lists I hit the memory limit at around:
  python -c "print len(280*1024*1024*[None])"
(where the required memory for this list is larger or
equal around 1.15 GByte - on Windows 2000, Pentium4,
with  3GByte RAM and Python 2.4.2).

Claudio