l = range(int(1E9))

[Michael Torrie]

On 05/02/2015 04:33 PM, BartC wrote:
> OK, so it's just an irritation then, as a workaround has been available 
> for a long time. (For example, if you use xrange, it won't work on 3.x. 
> If you use range, then it might be inefficient on 2.x.)

In both Python 2.7 and 3.3+, you can use the 3rd-party six module to
help with forward compatibility:

from six.moves import xrange

In Python 2.7, it's just the normal xrange (importing is a no op
basically), but in Python 3 it points to range.

Kind of wish parts of six were in the Python standard library.