Python integer ranges

43 down vote favorite 7	In Python, is there a way to get the largest integer one can use? Is there some pre-defined constant like INT_MAX? python integer share improve this question editedJan 5 '13 at 23:55 Tshepang 4,069 10 51 96 asked Jan 3 '11 at 3:13 nos 1,892 8 21 36
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Python has arbitrary precision integers so there is no true fixed maximum. You're only limited by available memory. In Python 2, there are two types, int and long. ints use a C type, while longs are arbitrary precision. You can usesys.maxint to find the maximum int. But ints are automatically promoted tolong, so you usually don't need to worry about it: sys.maxint + 1 works fine and returns a long. sys.maxint does not even exist in Python 3, since int andlong were unified into a single arbitrary precision int type. share improve this answer editedJan 3 '11 at 3:20 answered Jan 3 '11 at 3:14 Matthew Flaschen 160k 24 333 434

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