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A developer is confused about what `range()` actually returns and how much memory a large range uses. What does this code print?

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import sys

r = range(0, 1_000_000_000)

print(type(r))
print(len(r))
print(sys.getsizeof(r))
print(sys.getsizeof(list(range(1000))))

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import sys

r = range(0, 1_000_000_000)

print(type(r))
print(len(r))
print(sys.getsizeof(r))
print(sys.getsizeof(list(range(1000))))