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The hex() method of bytes, bytearray and memoryview, and the binascii.b2a_hex() function accept bytes_per_sep argument in the range of C int. This is unusual, because maximal size for in-memory structures in Python is limited by sys.maxsize. Actually, passing bytes_per_sep larger than sys.maxsize or less than -sys.maxsize does not make sense, because it will be larger than the length of the converted byte sequence. But this is not so for C int. You get an OverflowError trying to insert a separator every 10GiB in 100GiB data. Yes, the example is not realistic, but this is a matter of principal possibility.
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Feature or enhancement
The
hex()method ofbytes,bytearrayandmemoryview, and thebinascii.b2a_hex()function acceptbytes_per_separgument in the range of C int. This is unusual, because maximal size for in-memory structures in Python is limited bysys.maxsize. Actually, passingbytes_per_seplarger thansys.maxsizeor less than-sys.maxsizedoes not make sense, because it will be larger than the length of the converted byte sequence. But this is not so for C int. You get an OverflowError trying to insert a separator every 10GiB in 100GiB data. Yes, the example is not realistic, but this is a matter of principal possibility.Linked PRs