text_combined: guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg sure 30 range isnt exactly 26 xrange would proper backport sorry dont recall exact difference remember redone perhaps support long integers seems pretty minor though advantage using xrange remain backwards compatible way 20 probably even 152 fri mar 14 2008 814 pm eric smith wrote keynote guido mentioned switching range xrange 26 code migration strategy another option would add range future_builtins call xrange would desirable guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 034420 0500 pythondev range future_builtins