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PDW: xrange has its limits, thanks to being implemented in C. somewhat defeats the purpose of xrange.
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xrange_blergh.py
$ python
Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.maxint
9223372036854775807
>>> xrange(0, 2 ** 64 - 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long
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