[issue2603] Make range __eq__ work

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> added the comment:

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Benjamin Peterson
<report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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>  Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition at gmail.com> added the comment:
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>  Thanks for the help.
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>  Yes, after thinking for a while, I decided that range equality should
>  represent the set of integers and not the values in the constructor.
>  Normalization would be a good idea, but I think that's another issue
>  I'll tackle after this.

The two go hand-in-hand; you shouldn't have two range() objects that
compare equal and yet have different stop attribute values.

>  Now you get an error for hashing a huge range.
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>  Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10110/range_eq8.patch
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