[Solved] Variable that represents all numbers? [closed]

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In Python 3.2 and higher, representing a container with all integers from 1 to a million is correctly done with range:

>>> positive_nums_to_1M = range(1, 1000001)
>>> 1 in positive_nums_to_1M
True
>>> 1000000 in positive_nums_to_1M
True
>>> 0 in positive_nums_to_1M
False

It’s extremely efficient; the numbers in the range aren’t actually generated, instead the membership (or lack thereof) is computed mathematically.

If you need some equivalent object that supports any positive integer, or need it in Python 2.x, you’ll have to write your own class, but it’s not hard:

from operator import index

class natural_num_range(object):
    def __init__(self, maxnum=None):
        if maxnum is not None:
            maxnum = index(maxnum)  # Ensure a true native int (or long)
        self.maxnum = maxnum

    def __contains__(self, x):
        try:
             x = index(x)
        except TypeError:
             return False
        return x >= 1 and (self.maxnum is None or x < self.maxnum)

That does something similar to range, but without supporting a start or step, and not requiring a stop, so you can do constant time membership tests:

>>> natural = natural_num_range()
>>> all(i in natural for i in range(1, 10000000, 10000))
True
>>> any(i in natural for i in range(-100000000, 0, 10000))
False

solved Variable that represents all numbers? [closed]