[Python-3000] Equality of range objects

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Wed Apr 9 09:35:16 CEST 2008


Anand Balachandran Pillai schrieb:
> Still this seems like a bad thing to break backward compatibility with.
> However I cannot really provide a use-case apart from what Benjamin
> has said -> Teaching. It is not a common use-case to equate ranges
> in code and that is bad coding anyway.
> 
> Hopefully, this will be well documented at 3.0 release. Currently
> that "whats new" page does not mention anything about the range
> type and how it breaks backward compatibility.

It says "xrange() renamed to range()". While this is everything one'd
need to know, I agree that it could use a clarifying sentence, so I
added one now.

Georg



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