Diego <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:

2008/8/6 Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
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> By the way, do you already know about xrange?
>
> xrange([start,] stop[, step]) -> xrange object
>
> Like range(), but instead of returning a list, returns an object that
> generates the numbers in the range on demand.  For looping, this is
> slightly faster than range() and more memory efficient.
>
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int

4294967296L

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OverflowError: range() result has too many items

Sadly so high numbers are longs and xrange seems to get an integer.

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