bpo-12159: Document sys.maxsize limit in len() function reference (GH…

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python · Jan 12, 2020 · d7c7add · d7c7add
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@@ -892,6 +892,11 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
    sequence (such as a string, bytes, tuple, list, or range) or a collection
    (such as a dictionary, set, or frozen set).
 
+   .. impl-detail::
+
+      ``len`` raises :exc:`OverflowError` on lengths larger than
+      :data:`sys.maxsize`, such as :class:`range(2 ** 100) <range>`.
+
 
 .. _func-list:
 .. class:: list([iterable])