Python sys.maxint, sys.maxunicode on Linux and windows

Question

On 64-bit Debian Linux 6:

Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 26 2010, 22:31:48)
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type \"help\", \"copyright\", \"credits\" or \"license\" for         


        

Answer 1

Regarding the difference is sys.maxint, see What is the bit size of long on 64-bit Windows?. Python uses the long type internally to store a small integer on Python 2.x.