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Author cjw296
Recipients cjw296
Date 2012-11-08.15:26:23
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gzip.py uses range instead of xrange in two places.
This results in excessive memory usage when opening large .gz files.
I actually bumped into this using tarfile.

Am I right in thinking that range basically *is* xrange in 3.x? If so, this bug applies only to 2.6 and 2.7.
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