[Python-ideas] Implement comparison operators for range objects

[Ron Adam]

On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 17:31 +0100, Sven Marnach wrote:
> There are circumstances, for example in unit testing, when it might be
> useful to check if two range objects describe the same range.
> Currently, this can't be done using the '==' operator:
> 
>     >>> range(5) == range(5)
>     False

Would comparing the repr of each one work?

>>> r1 = range(5)
>>> r2 = range(5)
>>> r1 == r2
False
>>> repr(r1), repr(r2)
('range(0, 5)', 'range(0, 5)')
>>> repr(r1) == repr(r2)
True


Cheers,
   Ron