MemoryError under 2.2b1

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The following little script ends in a MemoryError

hello world!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Python22/HelloWorld.py", line 4, in ?
    for j in range(99999999,1000000001):
MemoryError

There seems to be a strange dependancy between the two range parameters;
ranges (99999999,100000000) and (999999999,1000000099) work.
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print "hello world!"
import time

for j in range(99999999,1000000001):
    null= 0
    print null
t1=time.time()
print t1
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Greetings,
wolfgang teschner