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

On 64-bit Debian Linux 6:

Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 26 2010, 22:31:48)
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
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>>> import sys
>>> sys.maxint
9223372036854775807
>>> sys.maxunicode
1114111

On 64-bit Windows 7:

Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Nov 27 2010, 17:19:03) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on
win32
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>>> import sys
>>> sys.maxint
2147483647
>>> sys.maxunicode
65535

Both operating systems are 64-bit. They have sys.maxunicode, according to wikipedia. There are 1111112 code points in Unicode. Is sys.maxunicode wrong on Windows?

And why do they have different sys.maxint?

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I don't know what your question is, but it sys.maxunicodedoesn't work on Windows.

See the docs :

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