No overflow in variables?

[Christian Heimes]

On 22.01.2014 19:26, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Internally, I believe CPython uses the GNU Multiprecision Library
> (GMP), which gives an efficient representation and operation format,
> scaling to infinity or thereabouts. You can go to any size of integer
> you like without there being any difference. There's a cost to that
> (even small integers are a bit slower to work with), but it's SO
> helpful to be able to work with arbitrarily large numbers that it's
> worth that cost.

Small correction: Python isn't using GMP. Python uses its own
implementation.