In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Otten wrote:
> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
>
>>>>> from itertools import count
>>>>> from sys import maxint
>>>>> c = count(maxint)
>>>>> c.next()
>> 2147483647
>>>>> c.next()
>> -2147483648
>>
>> What I find most disturbing here, is that it happens silently. I would
>> have expected an exception instead of the surprise.
>
> This is fixed in Python2.5:
>
>>>> from itertools import count
>>>> import sys
>>>> c = count(sys.maxint)
>>>> c.next(), c.next()
> (2147483647, 2147483648L)
Hm, my test above was from 2.5!?
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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