Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:32:55 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: > >> >>> [x for x in xrange(0, 101)] == [y for y in xrange(101)] >> True > > First I thought: Why the unnecessary list comprehension but to my surprise: > > In [33]: xrange(42) == xrange(42) > Out[33]: False > > That's strange. > Not so strange really. The two xrange objects are different (though I confess I haven't looked to see how they implement comparisons), but iterating over them produces the same result.
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