guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg wed apr 30 2008 510 pm benjamin peterson wrote wed apr 30 2008 641 pm guido van rossum wrote ive come across situations len raising exception inconvenient returning truncated value eg printing cases shouldnt explicit catch overflow exception use sysmaxsize thats big run crashed didnt find rationale im sure pbp though whats pbp search turns bicycle race practicality beats purity zen python guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 225007 0700 python3000 range issues