Could you verify this, Oh Great Unicode Experts of the Python-List?

[MRAB]

On 13/08/2013 04:20, Jason Friedman wrote:
>>>> I've always wondered if the 160 character limit or whatever it is is a
>>>> hard limit in their system, or if it's just a variable they could tweak
>>>> if they felt like it.
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> I thought it was 140 characters?
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He did say "or whatever". :-)