Alexander Belopolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Option (3) would require changing both sq_item and sq_length signatures, which is likely to have a large negative impact on performance.
Option (2) would either require a change for the sq_length signature, or leave the problem of having valid range objects for which applying len() would produce an OverflowError. What are the use cases for ranges with length greater than maxsize? Note that in 2.x all arguments to length are limited to 32 bit integers (even on 64-bit platforms) and the main reason to support long start/stop/step in 3.0 is because 2.x range() supports them. On the other hand, since 2.x range() produces lists, it is limited in length to a fraction of sys.maxsize. Therefore none of the current uses of either range or xrange require support of long length. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2690> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
