Add a Python 3 warning about accessing sys.maxint (#1180)

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst b/doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst
index ab3e32a44..6b15de22e 100644
--- a/doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst
+++ b/doc/whatsnew/2.0.rst
@@ -293,6 +293,22 @@ New checkers
       except (ConnectionError, IOError, OSError, socket.error):
           pass
 
+* A new Python 3 checker was added to warn about accessing ``sys.maxint``.  This attribute was
+  removed in Python 3 in favor of ``sys.maxsize``.
+
+  .. code-block:: python
+
+      import sys
+      print(sys.maxint)
+
+  Instead of using ``sys.maxint``, use ``sys.maxsize``
+
+  .. code-block:: python
+
+      import sys
+      print(sys.maxsize)
+
+
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