questions about xrange

Should you always favor xrange() over range()?

Why or why not? ...

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

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 = r...

Accessing xrange internal structure

I'm trying to use ctypes to extract data from internal python structures. Namely, I'm trying to read the 4 fields in an xrange: typedef struct { PyObject_HEAD long start; long step; long len; } rangeobject; Is there any standard way of getting at such fields within python itself? ...