[Python-3000] range() issues

[Facundo Batista]

2008/4/29, Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Put another way:  range(n) currently works, in Py3k, for n > sys.maxsize.
>  > What's the rationale for breaking that?
>
> So we can support other sequence methods. (I think.)

The point is that we're sacrificing a good feature (don't worry about
the limit of range(), Python is safe), in favor of rarely used
features (index a range()... what's the point?; or knowing its
length... hey, you created range, you should know its length).

Regards,

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