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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients belopolsky, mark.dickinson
Date 2008-04-25.16:55:19
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So with this patch, range(10**100) produces an OverflowError:  is that 
right?

I don't much like this aspect of the change:   there are uses for

for i in range(ridiculously_large_number):
   ...
   if condition_that_occurs_early_in_practice:
       break
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