[Python-3000] Equality of range objects

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Benjamin Peterson
<musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>  > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Benjamin Peterson
>  >  <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > Is there a reason this is not implemented, though? It's seems to me
>  >  >  they should be equivalent.
>  >
>  >  Where's the use case?
>  Education. the range object describes a set of integers from one point
>  to another, so to a new Python student having them not equivalent
>  can't be helpful.

That's not good enough. You could say that for almost anything. Plus
it just becomes that much more code and feature-set to maintain.

-Brett