[issue39227] OverflowError in len(range(2**63))

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[issue39227] OverflowError in len(range(2**63))

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[issue39227] OverflowError in len(range(2**63))

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[issue39227] OverflowError in len(range(2**63))

New submission from Zac Hatfield-Dodds : The value for `len` internally passes through an `ssize_t`, which means that it raises OverflowError for (very) large collections. This is admittedly only possible with collections such as `range` that do not store all their elements in memory, but it