Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Paul Rubin] >> I hope in 3.0 there's a real fix, i.e. the count should promote to >> long. > > In Py2.6, I will mostly likely put in an automatic promotion to long > for both enumerate() and count(). It took a while to figure-out how > to do this without killing the performance for normal cases (ones > used in real programs, not examples contrived to say, "omg, see what > *could* happen").
Using PY_LONG_LONG for the counter, and PyLong_FromLongLong to create the Python number should work well for huge sequences without (visibly) slowing down the normal case. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
