14 Oct
2011
14 Oct
'11
11:52 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Guido van Rossum guido@python.org wrote: ..
- add read-only attributes .start, .step, .stop
- add slicing such that it normalizes .stop to .start + the right
multiple of .step
- add __eq__ and __hash__ which compare by .start, .step, .stop
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I did not see a clear statement of a use-case for any of these features. I could imagine convenience of __eq__ for those used to range() returning a list, but comparing by .start, .step, .stop would destroy this convenience. If you need an object with .start, .step, .stop, we already have the slice object. NumPy has some functionality to create a regular sequence from a slice object. I don't see why someone would need a __hash__. If you want to key some values by ranges, just use 3-tuples instead.