[issue1521] string.decode() fails on long strings

[Andreas Eisele]

Andreas Eisele added the comment:

For instance:

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Aug 30 2007, 16:15:51) 
[GCC 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2
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__[1] >>> s=" "*int(5E9)
6.050000 sec
__[1] >>> u=s.decode("utf-8")
4.710000 sec
__[1] >>> len(u) 
705032704
__[2] >>> len(s)
5000000000
__[3] >>> 

I would have expected both lengths to be 5E9

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