encoding: use range() instead of xrange() Python 3 doesn't have xrange(). Instead, range() on Python 3 is a generator, like xrange() is on Python 2. The benefits of xrange() over range() are when there are very large ranges that are too expensive to pre-allocate. The code here is only creating <128 values, so the benefits of xrange() should be negligible. With this patch, encoding.py imports safely on Python 3.