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`xrange(2**100)` -> OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int

Asked 2009-09-27T00:28:45.157
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xrange function doesn't work for large integers:

>>> N = 10**100
>>> xrange(N)
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int
>>> xrange(N, N+10)
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int

Python 3.x:

>>> N = 10**100
>>> r = range(N)
>>> r = range(N, N+10)
>>> len(r)
10

Is there a backport of py3k builtin range() function for Python 2.x?

Edit

I'm looking for a complete implementation of "lazy" range(), not just a partial implementation of some of its functionality.

python python-3.x range biginteger xrange
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Okay, here's a go at a fuller reimplementation.

class MyXRange(object):
    def __init__(self, a1, a2=None, step=1):
        if step == 0:
            raise ValueError("arg 3 must not be 0")
        if a2 is None:
            a1, a2 = 0, a1
        if (a2 - a1) % step != 0:
            a2 += step - (a2 - a1) % step
        if cmp(a1, a2) != cmp(0, step):
            a2 = a1
        self.start, self.stop, self.step = a1, a2, step

    def __iter__(self):
        n = self.start
        while cmp(n, self.stop) == cmp(0, self.step):
            yield n
            n += self.step

    def __repr__(self):
        return "MyXRange(%d,%d,%d)" % (self.start, self.stop, self.step)

    # NB: len(self) will convert this to an int, and may fail
    def __len__(self):
        return (self.stop - self.start)//(self.step)

    def __getitem__(self, key):
        if key < 0:
            key = self.__len__() + key
            if key < 0:
                raise IndexError("list index out of range")
            return self[key]
        n = self.start + self.step*key
        if cmp(n, self.stop) != cmp(0, self.step):
            raise IndexError("list index out of range")
        return n

    def __reversed__(self):
        return MyXRange(self.stop-self.step, self.start-self.step, -self.step)

    def __contains__(self, val):
        if val == self.start: return cmp(0, self.step) == cmp(self.start, self.stop)
        if cmp(self.start, val) != cmp(0, self.step): return False
        if cmp(val, self.stop) != cmp(0, self.step): return False
        return (val - self.start) % self.step == 0

And some testing:

def testMyXRange(testsize=10):
    def normexcept(f,args):
        try:
            r = [f(args)]
        except Exception, e:
            r = type(e)
        return r

    for i in range(-testsize,testsize+1):
        for j in range(-testsize,testsize+1):
            print i, j
            for k in range(-9, 10, 2):
answered 2009-09-27T03:05:09.293

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