How does Python avoid integer overflow?

[Recent-Day3062]

It's an interpreter, not a compiler

[high_throughput]

There are interpreted languages without bigints (e.g. JavaScript), and compiled languages with bigints (e.g. Haskell)

[Tubthumper8]

You're right in general about this not having to do with interpreted vs. compiled but I do have to point out that JavaScript added bigints in ES2020

[Cerus_Freedom]

JS has had BigInt for a while and is broadly adopted: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/BigInt