text_combined: guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg tue apr 29 2008 218 pm benjamin peterson wrote tue apr 29 2008 409 pm mark dickinson wrote put another way rangen currently works py3k n sysmaxsize whats rationale breaking support sequence methods think personally think range easy iterate sequence set series whatever term integers even theyre huge dont think need turn sequence fits brain need something advanced counting things use cases range slicing anyway 1 lets stop discussion kill proposals add indexingslicing etc sorry alexander isnt anyone besides favor nobody brought convincing use case __len__ always problematic values counted signed c long maybe java collections package java chooses practicality purity simply states length doesnt fit largest number fit returned ie us would sysmaxsize 30 sysmaxint 2x guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 212904 0700 python3000 range issues