Long integers and ways around xrange

[Martin Manns]

On 16 Jan 2010 20:25:44 GMT
Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:04:09 +0100, Martin Manns wrote:
> >> islice(count(start, step), (stop-start+step-1)//step).
> > 
> > However, count only accepts one parameter, so that this solution
> > does not work. Furthermore, islice only accepts positive values for
> > step.
> 
> This should be reported as a documentation bug.

I added a bug report [issue7721].

Thanks for the code review.

Martin