In Python 3 integers don’t have a maximum size. The largest possible list or in-memory sequence is going to be sys.maxsize
. Python 2 had a sys.maxint
constant with a value of 9223372036854775807
, but that constant was removed in Python 3.
Also, if you need to use a number that’s larger/smaller than any other you can use float('inf')
and float('-inf')
respectively.