[Python-3000] range() issues

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>  I've come across situations where len() raising an exception was more
>  inconvenient than returning a truncated value (e.g. when printing).

In those cases, shouldn't you be explicit, catch the overflow
exception, and then use sys.maxsize?

>  But I didn't find a rationale. I'm sure it was PBP though.

What's PBP? (A search only turns up a bicycle race. :))


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Cheers,
Benjamin Peterson