[Zope3-dev] Re: Source API

[Gary Poster]

On Sep 6, 2005, at 1:08 AM, Stuart Bishop wrote:

...
> So the only thing I think needs changing here is the documentation
> suggesting returning maxint from __len__.
...

While I think there is agreement on this, have we settled in on a  
solution?  Raising NotImplementedError or some other error to  
indicate that the len is currently too big to calculate, as Stuart  
first suggested, seems reasonable to me, but I'm not one to be saying  
what's best for the Python internals.  I don't think returning the  
CPython default of 8 (if I understood that correctly) meets our use  
cases.

Gary