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Add note about new and improved xrange().

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Guido van Rossum 2001-01-15 19:11:10 +00:00
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@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ What's New in Python 2.1 alpha 1?
Core language, builtins, and interpreter 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: - Two changes to from...import:
1) "from M import X" now works even if M is not a real module; it's 1) "from M import X" now works even if M is not a real module; it's