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Author	ncoghlan
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, facundobatista, mark.dickinson, ncoghlan
Date	2008-04-29.11:40:16
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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It also isn't what range() and xrange() are used for now in 2.x. range() returns an actual list, hence is limited to sequences that fit in a reasonable amount of memory, and xrange() doesn't support values greater than sys.maxint at all (as it uses C ints for its internal storage of the start, stop and step values). With itertools.count() available for the unbounded iterator case, I think making range() mimic its 2.x counterpart as closely as possible (without the memory inefficiency) will be quite valuable.

It also isn't what range() and xrange() are used for now in 2.x. range()
returns an actual list, hence is limited to sequences that fit in a
reasonable amount of memory, and xrange() doesn't support values greater
than sys.maxint at all (as it uses C ints for its internal storage of
the start, stop and step values).

With itertools.count() available for the unbounded iterator case, I
think making range() mimic its 2.x counterpart as closely as possible
(without the memory inefficiency) will be quite valuable.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-04-29 11:40:21	ncoghlan	set	spambayes_score: 0.111455 -> 0.11145458 recipients: + ncoghlan, facundobatista, amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, belopolsky
2008-04-29 11:40:20	ncoghlan	set	spambayes_score: 0.111455 -> 0.111455 messageid: <[email protected]>
2008-04-29 11:40:18	ncoghlan	link	issue2690 messages
2008-04-29 11:40:17	ncoghlan	create