compare range objects
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Thu Oct 20 14:24:53 EDT 2011
Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Hans Mulder <hansmu at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> There's already a discussion about this on python-ideas. But somebody
>>> please tell me, why would you ever need to compare ranges?
>> It could be useful if you're unit-testing a function that returns a range.
>> Easy:
>> list(range1) == list(range2)
The biggest reason in my mind for implementing range equality is that
currently two ranges compare equal iff they are the same range. In
other words:
--> range(10) == range(10)
False
~Ethan~
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