Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
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"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

> The range function ought to be fixed; contributions are welcome.
> 
> For xrange, generalizing the function defeats its purpose, so it will
> continue to give OverflowErrors.

Don't you have these reversed?  If you've got long arguments, chances
are building the actual list will be _huge_, so using range would be
impractical.  xrange would be the different story, since it involves a
proxy object that supports a sequence protocol.

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