On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Matthew Ruffalo <mm...@case.edu> wrote: > Yes, length-unlimited strings are *extremely* useful in some > applications. I remember bitterly cursing Java's string length limit of > 2 ** 31 (maybe - 1) on multiple occasions. Python's strings seem to > behave like integers in that their size is limited only by available memory.
Hmm, I don't know that you'll get much beyond 2**31 characters (even all-ASCII characters in PEP 393) on a 32-bit Python, simply because "available memory" is capped at 2**32 bytes minus other stuff. You'd need a 64-bit Python to do that, and I would guess a 64-bit Java would also raise the limit. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
