From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:11:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add note about new and improved xrange().
X-Git-Tag: v2.1a1~257
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=051e335d420478a06a7026f6e74d2db2a20ab5d1;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add note about new and improved xrange().
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2b8e38dc7f94..eb16282ddc23 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ What's New in Python 2.1 alpha 1?
 
 Core language, builtins, and interpreter
 
+- The xrange() object implementation has been improved so that
+  xrange(sys.maxint) can be used on 64-bit platforms.  There's still a
+  limitation that in this case len(xrange(sys.maxint)) can't be
+  calculated, but the common idiom "for i in xrange(sys.maxint)" will
+  work fine as long as the index i doesn't actually reach 2**31.
+  (Python uses regular ints for sequence and string indices; fixing
+  that is much more work.)
+
 - Two changes to from...import:
 
   1) "from M import X" now works even if M is not a real module; it's