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symbols -> SyntaxError: more than 255 arguments

https://www.quantopian.com/help
"To reference multiple securities in your algorithm, call the symbols function to create a list of stocks. Note the pluralization! The function can accept a list of up to 500 securities and its parameters are not case sensitive."

Trying to reference more than 255 securities in a call to the symbol function I got the error message: "SyntaxError: more than 255 arguments"

When building a fixed universe with more than 255 securities the problem can be bypassed by concatenating (+) the result of two symbols invocations but I suggest Q to check and correct the help page!