enumerate overflow

[Steve Holden]

crwe at post.cz wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> in python2.4, i read lines from a file with
> 
> for lineNum, line in enumerate(f): ...
> 
> However, lineNum soon overflows and starts counting backwards. How do
> i force enumerate to return long integer?
> 
Just how "soon" exactly do you read sys.maxint lines from a file? I 
should have thought that it would take a significant amount of time to 
read 2,147,483,647 lines ...

But it is true that Python 2.5 uses an enumobject representation that 
limits the index to a (C) long:

typedef struct {
         PyObject_HEAD
         long      en_index;    /* current index of enumeration */
         PyObject* en_sit;      /* secondary iterator of enumeration */
         PyObject* en_result;   /* result tuple  */
} enumobject;

regards
  Steve
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