Re: [Python-Dev] Overflow on enumerate() and itertools.count()

2007/10/28, Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>:

For Py2.6, I fixed a long standing irritant where the count raised an OverflowError when it reached LONG_MAX.

If you guys agree that is a bug fix, I'll backport it to Py2.5.

Smells like a feature to me. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)