[issue1165] Should itertools.count work for arbitrary integers?

[Eduardo Padoan]

New submission from Eduardo Padoan:

Currently, itertools.count.__next__ checks wether the current value is >
PY_SSIZE_T_MAX and raises OverflowError if so. Shouldn't the value be
stored as "long", at least in Py3k? Not that I have any use case for it,
so it is minor.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 55927
nosy: eopadoan
severity: minor
status: open
title: Should itertools.count work for arbitrary integers?
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.0

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