l = range(int(1E9))

[Mark Lawrence]

On 02/05/2015 22:40, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> On 2015-05-02, BartC <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
>> So do I, I think, if no-one is willing to admit that the original way of
>> implementing range() was a glaring mistake.
>
> I think the issue is that nobody else here thinks the "original way"
> of iterating was to use range(), for anything other than extremely
> small ranges.
>
> For information, it looks like xrange() was added on 26 Oct 1993,
> which pre-dates Python 1.0.
>

No chance, or so I thought, but to save others from looking it up 
https://hg.python.org/cpython/annotate/89e1e5d9ccbf/Python/bltinmodule.c

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Mark Lawrence