[Tutor] for loop for long numbers

[Mark Lawrence]

On 03/08/2015 19:15, Dima Kulik wrote:
>   Hi to all.
> Can you help me plz.
> I want to make a for loop with a huge numbers.
> for example:
>
> for i in range (0,9000000000):
>   make_some_code
>
> but range and xrange cant operate with such big numbers.
> Can some on help me?
> Thanks.
>

You cannot do anything about it directly with Python 2 but this works 
fine on Python 3.  Work arounds from 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9816603/range-is-too-large-python are:-

import itertools
range = lambda stop: iter(itertools.count().next, stop)

OR

def range(stop):
    i = 0
    while i < stop:
        yield i
        i += 1

Having said that what are you trying to achieve?  If you tell us we may 
be able to suggest a cleaner solution.

-- 
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Mark Lawrence