[Python-3000] range() issues

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Benjamin Peterson
<musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

That's what I did *after* a big run crashed. :-(

>  >  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. :))

Practicality Beats Purity, from the zen of Python.

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