Re: Long integers and ways around xrange

2010-01-16 Thread Martin Manns
On 16 Jan 2010 20:25:44 GMT Steven D'Aprano 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 po

Re: Long integers and ways around xrange

2010-01-16 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:04:09 +0100, Martin Manns wrote: > Hi > > As stated in the manual, xrange raises an OverflowError for long integer > parameters. Looking for a xrange like generator for long integers, I > found this in the manual > (http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html): > >> CPyt