Message 72153 - Python tracker

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That is *not* wanted. We had a discussion on the list about changing the
return value of the sq_length slot to allow larger lengths to be
reported, and while I don't recall why this wasn't done, I do recall
that the consensus was that if Py_ssize_t remains, len() should raise
rather than lie for larger values-