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Why python does not have a limit in the size of an integer where as C,C++ etc have a limit size for int?????
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Python has a limit. But it automatically changes the variable type once it gets too large
During excecution it could be like "Oh NO! Variable big_num's getting to big for the Int datatype. Im changing it to a long"
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Mmh I think python has a limit, though I'm not sure but the difference is that c++,c and others are lower level languages, meaning you have to handle a lot more things.
When it comes to integer size, python can automatically change the number of bits allocated to store a variable, while languages like Java, c, c++ have a fixed amount (32 bits). That's why they also have types like byte, short, long, ...