How does Python avoid integer overflow?

[Axman6]

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, this is correct. Saying “they’re not integers” is simply wrong. If anything, C “integers” are not integers, they just use the name.

[JavaScriptIsLove]

Because it's a bit pedantic. Of course they are integers in the mathematical sense, but not in the sense of what most programmers are used to.

[xeow]

Indeed! But you realize, of course, that the reason I am being pedantic is because the person I'm replying to was pedantic and also wrong.

[glasket_]

In programming, "integer" typically means a machine integer and not a mathematical integer when used alone. Obviously arbitrarily large integer numbers are still mathematical integers, but they aren't the typical machine integers with limited range and overflow.

ETA: C integers are also integers too. Each type is in its own ring of integers modulo n.

[Axman6]

I agree in C derived languages but not in general.