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[Python-Dev] More int/long integration issues

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:42:47 -0500 
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003, David Abrahams wrote:
> 
> I was recently surprised by:
> 
>     Python 2.3a2+ (#1, Feb 24 2003, 15:02:10)
>     [GCC 3.2 20020927 (prerelease)] on cygwin
>     Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>     >>> xrange(2 ** 32)
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>     OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int
> 
> Now that we have a kind of long/int integration, maybe it makes sense
> to update xrange()?  Or is that really a 2.4 feature?

IIRC, it was decided that doing that wouldn't make sense until the
standard sequences (lists/tuples) can support more than 2**31 items.
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