[Python-ideas] Add irange with large integer step support to itertools

[Stefan Behnel]

Martin Manns, 10.01.2011 18:01:
> original message by Nick Coghlan in issue2690:
>
>> "I brought the patch up to date for the Py3k branch, but realised just
>> before checking it in that it may run afoul of the language moratorium
>> (since it alters the behaviour of builtin range objects)."

The language moratorium does not apply here because the described behaviour 
is a limitation that is specific to the CPython implementation, not the 
language.

Stefan