title: Maximum characters that can be stuffed into raw_input() in Python
body: <p>For an InterviewStreet challenge, we have to be able to accomodate for a 10,000 character String input from the keyboard, but when I copy/paste a 10k long word into my local testing, it cuts off at a thousand or so.</p>
  
  <p>What's the official limit in Python? And is there a way to change this?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks guys</p>
  
  <p>Here's the challenge by-the-by:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.interviewstreet.com/recruit/challenges/solve/view/4e1491425cf10/4edb8abd7cacd" rel="nofollow">http://www.interviewstreet.com/recruit/challenges/solve/view/4e1491425cf10/4edb8abd7cacd</a></p>