String from input is limited?

Question

I'm taking user input from the console but it will only accept 4096 bytes (4kb) of input. Since that is such a specific number is it something that is built into the language/is there a way around it?

The code I'm using:

message = input("Enter Message: ")

Answer 1

is it something that is built into the language

No, the limitation is not part of Python, it's a limitation of the console shell.

is there a way around it?

That depends on your operating system. See this answer for how to enter more than 4096 characters at the console on Linux:

Linux terminal input: reading user input from terminal truncating lines at 4095 character limit

Answer 2

4096 is 2^12

If you want larger input, please consider reading the message from a file instead.

with open('myfile.txt', 'r') as f:
    text = f.read()

Now, text will be a string which is all the text in the file. You can also do:

text = text.split('\n')

Now, text is a list of the lines in your text file