[Paul Rubin] > I hope in 3.0 there's a real fix, i.e. the count should promote to > long.
In Py2.6, I will mostly likely put in an automatic promotion to long for both enumerate() and count(). It took a while to figure-out how to do this without killing the performance for normal cases (ones used in real programs, not examples contrived to say, "omg, see what *could* happen"). Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list