Long integers, xrange and number theory

[Paul Rubin]

martin at v.loewis.de (Martin v. Löwis) writes:
> > xrange would be the different story, since it involves a proxy
> > object that supports a sequence protocol.
> 
> Indeed. That proxy object would need to change, making it inefficient
> even for small integers.

No, with small integer arguments the xrange function could just
construct the same proxy object it does now.  It would only make a new
kind of object if long ints were involved.