[New-bugs-announce] [issue6305] islice doesn't accept large stop values

[Thomas Guest]

New submission from Thomas Guest <tag at wordaligned.org>:

Python 3.0 (r30:67503, Jan  7 2009, 16:22:01) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin

>>> from itertools import islice, count
>>> islice(count(), (1<<31) - 1)
<itertools.islice object at 0x63a0c0>
>>> islice(count(), (1<<31))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: Stop argument for islice() must be a non-negative integer or
None.

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messages: 89494
nosy: thomasguest
severity: normal
status: open
title: islice doesn't accept large stop values
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.0

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