[issue10889] Fix range slicing and indexing to handle lengths > sys.maxsize

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> added the comment:

Attached patch moves range indexing and slicing over to PyLong and updates the tests accordingly.

Georg, I think this really makes the large range story far more usable - if you're OK with it, I would like to check it in this week so it lands in 3.2.

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assignee: ncoghlan -> georg.brandl
keywords: +patch
nosy: +georg.brandl
versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20355/issue10889_range_subscripts.diff

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