Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Given that range() produced a list in the 2.x series (hence limited to available memory), and xrange() uses int internally for its values (and hence couldn't even cope with short ranges with values greater than sys.maxint).
So my preference is to mimic the 2.x range's behaviour in this case by raising an overflow error if the sequence is too long. (From Python 2.5.1) >>> range(2**99, 2**100) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: range() result has too many items >>> range(2**99, 2**99+5) [633825300114114700748351602688L, 633825300114114700748351602689L, 633825300114114700748351602690L, 633825300114114700748351602691L, 633825300114114700748351602692L] >>> xrange(2**99, 2**99+5) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int ---------- nosy: +ncoghlan __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2690> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
