From 051e335d420478a06a7026f6e74d2db2a20ab5d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:11:10 +0000 Subject: Add note about new and improved xrange(). --- Misc/NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 2b8e38d..eb16282 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 -- cgit v0.12