Patch by Chad Netzer (with significant change):
- range() now works even if the arguments are longs with magnitude
larger than sys.maxint, as long as the total length of the sequence
fits. E.g., range(2**100, 2**101, 2**100) is the following list:
[1267650600228229401496703205376L]. (SF patch #707427.)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ebba33e..a85273a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
Core and builtins
-----------------
+- range() now works even if the arguments are longs with magnitude
+ larger than sys.maxint, as long as the total length of the sequence
+ fits. E.g., range(2**100, 2**101, 2**100) is the following list:
+ [1267650600228229401496703205376L]. (SF patch #707427.)
+
- Some horridly obscure problems were fixed involving interaction
between garbage collection and old-style classes with "ambitious"
getattr hooks. If an old-style instance didn't have a __del__ method,