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@@ -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 |