l = range(int(1E9))

Sun May 3 07:15:40 EDT 2015

On Sun, 3 May 2015 08:33 am, BartC wrote:
> OK, so it's just an irritation then, as a workaround has been available
> for a long time. (For example, if you use xrange, it won't work on 3.x.
> If you use range, then it might be inefficient on 2.x.)

That is trivially easy to deal with. Put this at the top of your module:
try:
 xrange
except NameError:
 xrange = range
and then use xrange throughout the module. Or if you prefer:
try:
 range = xrange
except NameError:
 pass
and just use range.
-- 
Steven