l = range(int(1E9))

[Mark Lawrence]

On 03/05/2015 12:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 9:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> On Sun, 3 May 2015 12:16 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>
>>> I doubt that six will ever make the standard library as 2.7 only has
>>> another five years in official support.  By that time I suppose we'll to
>>> going through the porting pain all over again with the transition from
>>> Python 3 to Python 4.  Alright, alright, only joking
>>
>>
>> Guido has said that Python 4 will just be an incremental update from 3.x.
>
> There is still, as I understand it, the possibility that Python 4.0
> will ditch some things that will have been deprecated for a long time
> by 3.9. But yes, it'll be no more upheavalous to go from 3.9 to 4.0
> than from 3.8 to 3.9.
>
> ChrisA
>

https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/unicode.html#c.PyUnicode_GET_SIZE

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Mark Lawrence