Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
All contributions are subject to final commit review. I looked at the patch and
it is a *lot* of code for little benefit. I think the better solution would be
an informative error message: "Currently, islice arguments must be less than {}
on {}-bit systems".format(n, k).
Since I posted nearly 4 years ago, I have become more aware of the important
differences between 3.x range as a sequence class whose instances are
non-iterator *(re)iterables* and count as an iterator class whose instances are
one-time *iterators*. To me, arbitrarily large indices now seem more
appropriate for virtual sequences that can do O[1] indexing rather than
iterators where indexing is O[n].
A recent proposal on python-ideas, which as I remember amounted to enhancing
count to be more like range, tripped over this difference. I suggested that a
new infinite sequence class Count (like range but without necessarily having a
stop value) was a more sensible idea for what the OP wanted to do.
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