(x)range( 40000000000, 40000000001 )

[Aahz]

In article <3eff347f$1 at buckaroo.cs.rit.edu>,
Chris Connett  <kill_cxc_spam_0117 at cs.rit.edu> wrote:
>
>It seems range and xrange don't like longs that can't be sqeezed into ints:
>
>With Python 2.3b1+:
>
> >>> xrange( 40000000000, 40000000001 )
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int
> >>> range( 40000000000, 40000000001 )
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int
> >>>

The first problem is that range is designed to create a list and the
canonical usage for range is range(N); lists cannot currently have more
than int elements.  xrange() could get away with fixing it, but Guido has
decreed that xrange() is a target for deprecation (and will go away in
Python 3.0), so he won't allow any improvements to xrange() in order to
encourage people to use alternatives.
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